Medium: Archival pigment print
Edition: Artist's Proof
Signature: Inscribed on the front "Bus in Nice, photograph by Zhiping," stamped with the seal "Jiangshan Duojiao"; inscribed on the reverse "Zhiping AP"
This work belongs to Wang Zhiping's color photography created between 2010 and 2020. After settling in France in 1985 and moving to Provence in 1995, the intense sunlight, saturated colors, and vernacular atmosphere of southern France profoundly reshaped his photographic direction. Compared with his earlier black-and-white documentary approach, Wang's work of this period places greater emphasis on the force of color, the theatricality of the image, and the emotional intensity that prompts the release of the shutter. In Wang Zhiping's view, photography need not remain bound to the journalistic reconstruction of an event, but should instead submit to visual experience and artistic judgment. He has stated plainly that he is not concerned with the precise time or occasion of a photograph; rather, he is captivated by intense, heated, even deliberately "vulgar" color and the emotional force it evokes.
Wang Zhiping, born in 1947 in Linqing, Shandong, graduated in stage design from the PLA Academy of Arts in 1969 and began photographic practice in 1976. He was one of the principal organizers and planners of the April Photo Society, founded in 1979 and widely regarded as one of the first non-official photography art groups in China after 1949. The group played a key role in the historical shift of Chinese photography from political propaganda toward artistic exploration. Wang's advocacy of ideas such as "news pictures cannot replace photographic art" and "content differs from form" helped promote photography as an independent artistic language.

In 1985, Wang signed with the French ANA photo agency and relocated to France. Since then, he has worked across France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China, maintaining a practice that spans photography, painting, and decorative art. Known for his saturated color, vivid compositions, and cross-cultural vision, Wang not only witnessed the historical development of Chinese humanist photography, but also emerged as a notable practitioner at the intersection of Chinese and Western artistic exchange.