Chinese Father Documents Life With Son Every Year of His Life for 3 Decades

2013

As another year passes, you can see the tables have turned as it is now 54-year-old Tian who is being held by his son Li, now 27 in this photo. Tian was 27 when he began this photo series, so the posing in this photo is quite fitting, depicting the way that children often become the support for their aging parents as the years go on.

In March of 2013, Xi Jinping officially became the president of the People’s Republic of China. He adopted “China Dream” as the country’s slogan. At the same time, China’s environmental crisis was getting worse, with thousands of pigs turning up dead in Shanghai’s Huangpu River.