Nearly There, Nearly Concrete, Chongqing


  • Photographer
    Yuanyuan Yang
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2014
  • Technical Info
    Photography

The project begins with a found photo album compiled 50 years ago in which contains 300 photos taken in Chongqing, all focused on architecture, with the street address of nearly every location written underneath. Yuanyuan Yang revisits the places where these photos were taken, while knowing that it was a mission doomed for failure—many street names had changed, and nearly all the architecture from the photos was gone. By juxtaposing images of architecture taken from different times, different media (television and newspaper advertisement), in different forms (ruins or buildings under construction), and inserting images of people related to the architecture, this project produces a montage of imagery where new relations and dialogues form. Yang hope the pluralized relations and dialogues among these images can provide the transection of a kaleidoscope reflecting the current and continually changing composition of the city of Chongqing.

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