在创作《素歌》的过程中，运用了始于1850年的传统湿版火棉胶摄影技术，他花了数月时间带着便 携式暗房行走在中国南部云南省的偏远山区。骆丹的作品保持了摄影过程的纯净，在中国经济尚未发 展的地区，他发现了乡村生活朴素古典之美;在那里，村民们的生活方式大部分仍保留着几百年以 来的完整。100多年前基督教传教士将信仰的种子播撒在这里，使他们中的大多数人成为了虔诚的基 督徒，每个礼拜日都会穿着自己的民族服装或最好的着装去教堂。带着对摄影过程和主题的尊敬， 骆丹的“素歌”系列给观众带来了一种穿越时间的感觉。湿版火棉胶技术是19世纪中叶非常流行的 一种摄影技术，它能够帮助摄影师获取精美的细节;但是其繁杂的人工曝光和冲洗过程也导致了该 技术在本世纪末的衰退。

作为知名的肖像和纪实摄影家，骆丹凭借《在路上——国道318》(2006)和《南北》(2008)系列作 品获得了很多的奖项和好评。骆丹1968年出生于中国重庆，于1992年从四川美术学院毕业。他曾因 《南北》(2008)作品获得了连州国际摄影节的最佳艺术家金奖。今年，他又荣获候登科纪实摄影 奖、并被评为2011年大理国际摄影节的最佳新摄影师。他目前在成都生活和工作。

For his “Simple Song” project, Luo Dan employed the traditional collodion wet plate photographic process invented in 1850, spending several months traveling with a portable darkroom in remote and mountainous regions of China’s southern Yunnan Province. Looking to capture the purity of this photographic process, Luo Dan was able to reflect the authenticity found in rural life for many of China’s yet undeveloped regions, where the way of life has remained largely intact for hundreds of years. More than 100 years ago many of the villages in this region were influenced by early Christian missionaries, resulting in many of the local villagers becoming people of faith and devout churchgoers, often seen dressing up in their ethnic garments, or Sunday’s best. By bringing a reverence to both this antiquated photographic process and subject matter, Luo Dan’s “Simple Song” series is an effort to capture a sense of timelessness. An incredibly popular process in the mid-nineteenth century, wet plate collodion could render exquisite detail for photographers, but the laborious process of exposure and development also led to its decline towards the end of the century.

An acclaimed portrait and documentary photographer, Luo Dan has won numerous awards and recognition for his works “On the Road - Highway 318” (2006) and “North, South” (2008). Luo Dan was born in Chongqing, China, in 1968 and graduated from the Sichuan Fine Art Academy in 1992. He was given the Gold Award for Outstanding Artist at the Lianzhou International Photography Festival in 2008 for his body of work “North, South” (2008). This year he was recently awarded the Hou Dengke documentary photography prize, as well as voted best new photographer at the Dali International Photography Festival (2011). He currently lives and works in Chengdu, China.