The next year he got together with Teng Nan-kuang and Chan Ping-k'un to form the Liberty Photography Exhibition. Their goals were a kind of moderate realism: to break away from the portraits and landscapes of the salon school and try to capture real life, while at the same time still expressing a sense of the beautiful.
第二年，他又聯合了鄧南光、詹炳坤等人發起了「自由影展」，冀圖稍許擺脫山水、人物等沙龍式的擺飾與美化，給予生活上各種現實較直接的面貌，不過在這面貌上，他們仍希望傳達「綺麗」的感受。