To coincide with our travels in Southern China, thought I’d post some Edward Burtynsky photos. He also has a show at the Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery currently.
Bao Steel - 02, 2005, Shanghai
Manufacturing - 04, 2005, Factory Worker Dormitory, Dongguan, Guangdong Province
Manufacturing - 17, 2005, Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province
China Recycling - 02, [...]
Shao Yinong’s continuous painting on silk at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in London.
Installation view of exhibition “Between Sky and Earth - Beginning of Summer”, Beijing
A new documentary about the lives of Beijing taxi drivers from Three Waters Productions.
The Chinese artist Liu Bolin continues his ongoing photo project of “blending into” the background. This time, he embeds himself in slightly more politically loaded situations, including a poster for the Olympic mascots and a scene where he’s being grabbed by a policeman.
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Our friends at THEME just gave their website a new redesign. More content, more blogs, more photos! Check out our Beijing guide for the best places to eat and drink and get a tour of Beijing from a local taxi driver.
Theme magazine’s Beijing/Olympics issue is out. It features a condensed city guide that Shu and I helped develop for those checking out the Olympics first hand.
Timezone 8 book shop in Dashanzi, Beijing
A lot of posts on China this week. Must be our pre-Olympics fever. Beijing-based architect and writer Neville Mars just published a massive new book on urbanism in China titled THE CHINESE DREAM: a society under construction. The book attempts to tackle some tricky questions relating to the country’s rapid expansion and speedy growth:
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A new documentary about the hopes and fears of Beijingers just before the Olympics. Looks like some great insight into how the average Chinese citizen feels about the upcoming festivities.
The whole “smoking is bad for you” thing hasn’t really hit China, so there’s an almost whimsical, celebratory attitude towards nicotine. Cigarettes are given as gifts, purchased by the boxload at duty free shops and are generally considered an inexpensive luxury. Lyn Jeffery over at Virtual China posts about the beauty of Chinese cigarette packaging [...]
To celebrate its year anniversary, the Three Shadows Photography Center will present an exhibition of Xiong Wenyun’s much lauded Moving Rainbows series. From the press release:
A prolific female artist, Xiong Wenyun’s multidisciplinary works link individual emotion with the social environment through a unique, subtle language. Her works are not confined to the exhibition hall, [...]