May 1995, Guangzhou. Lin Yilin’s performance Safely Crossing Linhe Road. A freelance photographer at the time, I was working on a feature on Chinese avant-garde art for the German magazine Stern. Stern photographer Hans- Jürgen Burkard (crouching on the right; standing on the right is me) and I traveled together to Guangzhou to shoot. I planned the trip beforehand with the artists, and all of them did something for me to shoot. The four artists of the Big Tail Elephant collective all prepared new works, becoming the very reflection of my camera lens.