Love for reading through the lens

With the fifth National Conference on Reading held from Monday to Wednesday in Nanchang, the photo exhibition demonstrates how reading has become an organic and indispensable part of everyday life.

For its curators, the lens acts as the eye of society, faithfully documenting a shift. Reading is no longer confined to solemn libraries or bookstores. It has spilled into streetside nooks, community centers, rural reading rooms, night markets, and construction sites.

Open free to the public at multiple venues across Nanchang, the exhibition suggests that building a reading culture is measured not only by the number of libraries or book sales, but by the quiet, conscious choice of a nation to carry a book and find a moment of warmth amid the daily hustle.