CPL / City Photography League
Initiatives
City Photography League (CPL) Milestones
A structured record of key milestones in the CPL system—from institutional origins and platform formation to rule-based governance, public action, and cultural-heritage work.
Rule-Based Pricing in Eastern Painting: CPL ‘Real-Name Landscape “Eastern Charm”’ RMB 30 Million Public Sale and Global Refutation Challenge
A public, verifiable, and refutable pricing declaration: three stated reasons, a transparent challenge path, and a funds-use rule designed for auditability and long-term public cultural infrastructure.
Public Image Action
City-based public photography collaboration that builds verifiable civic narratives and strengthens community connection.
City Image Heritage Preservation Programme
A rule-based, accountable system for building verifiable and preservable city image records—forming sustained public image heritage.
The Mission of Real-Name Landscape Painting: Beginning with the Sunlight of Longtan Waterside
Starting from the sunlight and sketching actions at Longtan Waterside, this text retraces the historical conditions and spiritual mission behind the creation of “Real-Name Landscape Painting,” and articulates the historical responsibility contemporary painters must shoulder through long-term perseverance and public action.
From Baiyun Temple to Jinli
An impromptu sketching journey from Baiyun Temple to Jinli. Through time, sunlight, and urban space, the closing of one sketchbook and the opening of another become a continuous act of artistic action embedded in everyday movement.
From “Shijing Landscape” to “Real-Name Landscape”
Building on the long pursuit of identifiable landscape painting, this text articulates “Real-Name Landscape” as a contemporary method enabled by modern mobility and photographic reference—so that painted scenes can be verified against real places and real names.
From Mysterious Boxing to the Leader’s Discipline
From cross-media artistic practice to public cultural organization, Long Xuming constructs an Eastern contemporary methodology of creation through “One Painting, One Method” and “Real-Name Landscape,” and validates the social responsibility of art through long-term public-interest action.
Award-Bearing Photography Contests in China: Beginning with Zeng Yi
A reflective account of how award-bearing photography contests emerged in China, with a focus on Zeng Yi’s pioneering role and a broader critique of institutional conduct and integrity.