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Portfolio
China's Fast Track:
Photographs by Tony Law
Showcasing the work of emerging photographers, architects and designers.
Text by Karen E. Steen
November 2003
Last year 24-year-old photographer Tony Law won a Fulbright grant to document
the modernization of China. "China right now is going through a period of
very, very rapid growth," he says. "The whole country is changing ten
times faster than the natural evolution of a country." Law captured signs
of development in four of China's biggest cities--Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen,
and Guangzhou--where the most drastic changes are taking place. Here, he says,
"China is redefining itself to the rest of the world. I was trying to
investigate how they're building their cities, their environment, and through
that what image they're trying to project to the rest of the world. China has
always expressed itself with its architecture--look at the Great Wall and the
Forbidden City. The energy there now is of a new place being created and of
prosperity." |
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