For someone who intended to treat his trip to China as a casual working holiday, Martin Barnes has kept himself rather busy since he touched down in Beijing three-and-a-half years ago. The 30-year-old Englishman is the brain behind local creative workshop Hao Bu Hao, and he's also one half of a graffiti art duo that has begun to pop up in the most unlikely of places.
Shanghai's Art Deco past, its unique nongtangs, and the neighborhoods to which it owes its global reputation as "the Paris of the East", are being bulldozed as old buildings in parts of the city are replaced with modern high-rise. Locals and architects around the world are still weighing the impact of the drastic urban development and can't agree on whether it is for the better or the worse. Yet while everybody else is talking, Canadian photographer Greg Girard has documented the change of cityscape in a photo book entitled Phantom Shanghai, with exhibitions in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, and major cities in Canada.
When Xiong Guang-qing prepared for his trip to the Siguniang Mountains, in western Sichuan Province, the 57-year-old diabetic brought a thermos packed with ice, which he used to store his insulin.
Hong Kong has witnessed a series of historic events over the past decade, such as the return to the motherland, the financial crisis, SARS, and the recovery of the economy. From June 18 to August 5, an exhibition named China Hong Kong - Our Ten Years, featuring 60 photos by photographers of Hong Kong's media, covers a range of events since the reunification.
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