Zheng Nong, Hunjiang River, 1995 Life reveals its hidden implications at unlikely moments, and sometimes not at all. We have no reason to disbelieve the world we see before us, but it takes a lifetime to understand its meaning. In the end, perhaps we are not much wiser. So many seemingly trivial things, things we neither choose nor consciously leave behind, become important. We experience dullness and defeat, romantic nights and distant journeys. To keenly observe a world of everyday people and places, to find those who will shape our inner spaces, is to be a walking bystander. -Zheng Nong ZHENG NONG was born in 1968 in Dalian, Liaong Province. He studied book design at the Central Academy of Arts and Design in Beijing, then turned his attention to photography following his graduation. In 1997, Zheng published a collection of photographs he made during travels through China entitled Walking Bystander.