PUBLIC MARKS with tags chine & photographie

Secret nightscapes of these mortal cities in China.

Nadav Kander.Bathers 01 Bathers, Yibin, Sichuan : Yangtze, The Long River Series 2007.

In a recent post, I included some pictures of Shenzhen in 1980 (similar to the one above), just a few years after the establishment of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Thirty years later, these images of a car-free fishing village have been erased by a towering metropolis.

The mist and fog in Chongqing is real. It is athmospherical. The city’s nickname in China is City of Fog. It’s been like this since a long time. Of course there is also pollution from several kinds of industry in the athmospere. Surprisingly I never felt affected by the air quality.

Visualising China is a JISC-funded project to allow users to explore and enhance more than 8000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950.

A worker returns home at the Three Gorges Dam construction site. In the distance, a three-storey ferry is dwarfed by the gigantic 1.3 mile wide dam construction. Sandouping, China.

Photographer Ryan Pyle traveled to Yongding county to document these unique rural Chinese dwellings, some of which house  up to 80 families and have gun holes for defense against bandits.

I am an Explorer of Human Nature.

Beijing is my Hunting ground. I hear the City breathing in the Hot wet Air of the Summer, I hear the Clinch in the Cold Winter. The splashing of the Strong but Rear Rain of old and new Roofs.

This City is in a state of rebirth, everything is building and rediscovering. Beijing is not existing yet, just a Puzzle of endless fractures of different Centuries.

I can see it, The Desire, the Sex, The Loneliness. I will Photograph it and keep it for the time and me.

Xinjiang Project

artist Liu Zheng

During the 1960’s, faced with an unstable foreign policy as well as a high demand for resources, the People’s Republic of China was forced to delocalise most of its heavy industry and armament factories. Originally situated on China’s coasts and in the North East close to the Russian border, these factories were obliged to relocate in the countries heartlands, hidden away and better protected...