在寥若晨星的消防摄影群体中,姚勇算得上是一个矢志不渝的追索者。我是先通过他的作品认识他的人;再通过他的人认识他的作品。这些年我和姚勇的谋面只不 过匆匆几回,但他的作品却时不时在我眼前浮晃出现。 姚勇的风格不像其他消防摄影家那样大气磅礴,抑或于细微 处掘采精神的闪光点。他是以一种普通人的眼光,一种平民意识来 截取不平凡的消防队伍中的平凡片断。确实,就总体而言,消防部队是一支不平凡的队伍。但从个体而言,消防队员又是平凡的、普通的。因为,即使再险峻的灾难场景,对消防队员来说只是一种不断重复的生活片断和过程。然而,就在这平凡的日常生活中,却凝聚着普通人为抵御灾难而爆发出的巨大力量。 In the rare morning fire photography group, Yao Yong regarded as an unswerving recruit. I first know his people through his works; then through his people know his works. In the past few years, my meeting with Yao Yong was only a few hurries, but his works appeared in my eyes from time to time. Yao Yong’s style is not as magnificent as any other firefighting photographer, or the glittering spot in the spirit of mining. He is an ordinary people’s vision, a civilian consciousness to intercept extraordinary pieces of the extraordinary fire brigade. Indeed, the fire brigade is an extraordinary team as a whole. But from the individual, the firefighters are ordinary, ordinary. For even a catastrophic disaster scene is a repetitive piece of life and process for firefighters. However, in this ordinary daily life, it embodies the tremendous force that ordinary people have erupted in order to withstand the disaster.