Student volunteers help elderly couples turn back the clock

Earlier this summer, Zhang and 13 schoolmates traveled to Chizhou to take special wedding photos of 30 elderly couples.

Every winter and summer vacation, volunteers from the university take their own costumes and equipment to rural areas, communities, and nursing homes to take such photos.

After the shots are taken, the volunteers print and frame them, before sending them to the couples free of charge. As the students graduate, newcomers join the project.

"I heard about this project as soon as I arrived on campus. I love photography, so I signed up to join," Zhang said.

Last month, 13 groups comprising more than 170 students visited 13 areas, including Qianjiang county, Hubei province, and Danzhai county, Guizhou province.

They took wedding photos for over 300 elderly couples, including Party members, veterans, rural teachers, and inheritors of intangible cultural heritage.

The project's founder, Yu Jinwen, 35, a teacher at Wuhan University of Engineering Science, said that as of last month, the volunteers had taken wedding photos for more than 1,000 couples. They also interviewed their subjects and recorded their love stories.