A man in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, Liaoning Province dedicated most of his life to photography. From photographing, fixing, developing films to hand-coloring, Zhuang Qianbin was one of the best photographers in Dalian during the 1980s. /VCG Photo

Today, as films have withdrawn from the market, the 77-year-old started his new career on the old photographic films - perfecting people’s “broken memories.” /VCG Photo

Having worked for a photography studio for some 40 years, Zhuang left his career as a photographer in 2001, but his special interest in films did not end. He transformed his 30-square-meter room into a workshop where he takes photos for others with films and repairs broken photos. /VCG Photo

“I can’t make any mistake when I’m adding color to old photos. Otherwise, the whole photos are damaged,” Zhuang said. /VCG Photo

Greasepaint and watercolor are the most usual ingredients while ink brush, watercolor pens and bamboo spikes with cotton wrapped on one side are Zhuang’s perfect instruments to help find back memories. /VCG Photo

Zhuang even can convert the black-and-white photos to color photos with these magic tools. Under Zhuang’s help, numerous people have made their fragmentary memories complete. /VCG Photo

Three years ago, an elder visited Zhuang for making a photo for the tombstone of his passed brother. He sent the only group photo to Zhuang, which seems to make photographers a headache, but Zhuang cropped the part containing the man’s brother, edited, re-photographed and finally had the part zoomed in. A complete photo came out in one week, which surprised the elder. /VCG Photo

Zhuang started learning photography at a photography studio at the age of 18. In the 1960s, Zhuang was admitted to higher education on hand-coloring of photographs, and his photograph was awarded at the second national portrait photography competition. In the 1980s, Zhuang became a judge for the test of top academic and technical titles in photography. /VCG Photo