HOME IN THE MINE

My hometown is a coal center in China, my father is a coal miner. When I was young, the company where my father worked was unable to pay wages. My mother left me to work, since then my mother and I lived apart from each other.
In 2014, China was once again hit by the coal economic crisis, and the economy of my hometown was hit hard again. I started shooting coal miners including my father, my godmother and my friend, and recorded the story of the old coal mines being shut down and demolished during the great economic change, and the miners going to petition the enterprises and the government.
This story is about Chinese miners’ families has reflects that economic reform and open up has changed the class form and social state of China.
For me, the experience has let me understand why my mother left me.