On September 15, 1967, the first statue of Mao Zedong was installed at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The year prior to that , the ‘red guards’ at the university dismantled…
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The structure of the word "Blitz"「闪」in Chinese, shows a character「人」standing in the middle of the door 「门」. It represents the relationship and feelings between the city and me. The Chinese…
This photographer-poet was born in Changchun, Jilin Province, China, in 1987, Ren Hang is based in Beijing. He has had several solo exhibitions in China and abroad. His publications include…
This series were taken at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Every single day, hundreds of thousands of visitors swarmed into the Shanghai World Expo. Many tourists hurriedly seize the wooden…
In an empty amusement park, these large items of amusement equipement silently stand in the cold wind, like monuments . Without the bustling crowds or the noisy music, these gigantic…
We bring destruction to the land, the moment we begin to built. We construct a myriade of architectural structures on borrowed spaces. Only togive them up, decades later, and back to nature,…
I often look through the old photographs of China Photo, at faces of poeple who had been part of the history of China. As I look closely after enlarging the…
There is no "pure" observation in Jiang Jian’s documentary photography, Jiang as a documentary photographer, has lost his sense of "pure" observation and replaced it with observation within the scope of…
I am obsessed with those ornamenal plants that I have found in public and private places. It is because of Human’s needs that thes plants are pulled out of the…