Love songs to the city
When Yana Neskodna first came to Beijing from Switzerland in 1987, there were bicycles everywhere. She hardly saw a private car, let alone a fancy sports car. Almost 20 years later, when German photographer Thomas Sohnrey first came to Beijing, he was amazed by the skyscrapers in the CBD but on later visits he realized that the zigzag hutong were what truly fascinated him.
The two did not know each other until they ran into Jia Yong, a dedicated Chinese photographer based in Dashilar, near Qianmen. And now comes an exhibition displaying the things they all share: a love for Beijing and the way they express that love: by using their cameras.
The I Love Beijing photo exhibition is a group show of about 100 works by six photographers, half from China and half overseas, including Neskodna, Sohnrey and Jia.
