Amateur opera performer Yang Xiaoyun watches a performance in on a digital camera. [China.org.cn]

"Spectator at the Beijing Opera" took Ning Zhouhao 5 years to finish. This set of photos can be described as serious, precise, sentimental and anxious. Though they cannot change the destiny of Beijing Opera, they indicate a possibility for documentary photography to play an important role in promoting the progress of democracy. At the same time, documentary photography is also a form of self-expression. (Curator: Sun Jingtao)