Huang Ruide is a Guangzhou-based photographer who specializes in folk customs and folk culture in China’s rural areas. He is a regular collaborator of TWOC’s photography section, and is one of the judges of TWOC’s “Most China” photo contest. You can find his other works on his WeChat platform, “Cold Photography (冷摄影).”
From developing film in the shower in the 80s, to assisting in one of China’s earliest TV documentaries, a judge from our “Most China” photo contest reflects on what humanistic photography means to him