Somehow the cultural melting pot we have witnessed in the last 30 years: "The Global village" allows for Jazz to be echoed within an oriental imagery. Professor Gu is fully immersed in Chinese pictorial history, but he is also highly knowledgeable in photography's masters, Western and Eastern. As a critic and curator, he recognizes and analyses influences and trends in photographers' work and since his heart is not separated from his mind, he can incorporate these influences (within his own work) without pretences, without imitation, but with feeling and knowledge. His photographs make me smile but they also reveal what the author feels. Professor Gu does not see a black and white Chinese life, he uses black and white images to express all the grey's gradations of our modern societies. His music is not simple; its depth is reflective of the author's mind and imagination. The music he creates within a two dimensional image has something to tell us. Photography is a means of expression, like poetry, painting or literature; if the author has something to express, then the medium he uses is not important, the end result opens our hearts or minds.

- Extracted from Alain Jullien 'Music for our eyes'

Somehow the cultural melting pot we have witnessed in the last 30 years: “The Global village” allows for Jazz to be echoed within an oriental imagery. Professor Gu is fully immersed in Chinese pictorial history, but he is also highly knowledgeable in photography’s masters, Western and Eastern. As a critic and curator, he recognizes and analyses influences and trends in photographers’ work and since his heart is not separated from his mind, he can incorporate these influences (within his own work) without pretences, without imitation, but with feeling and knowledge. His photographs make me smile but they also reveal what the author feels. Professor Gu does not see a black and white Chinese life, he uses black and white images to express all the grey’s gradations of our modern societies. His music is not simple; its depth is reflective of the author’s mind and imagination. The music he creates within a two dimensional image has something to tell us. Photography is a means of expression, like poetry, painting or literature; if the author has something to express, then the medium he uses is not important, the end result opens our hearts or minds.

- Extracted from Alain Jullien ‘Music for our eyes‘