Sunday 14 October 2012

MP/VISUAL RESEARCH - IAN TEH



ETeh's photo essay, The Vanishing: Altered Landscapes and Displaced Lives on the Yangtze River, travels 700 kilometres from Chongqing in the west to Sandouping in the east, focussing on the lives of those effected by the dam and the landscape that will eventually be submerged forever.   It documents the virtual ghost towns, inhabited by a handful of families left temporarily destitute by local corruption and an inadequate resettlement programme. Teh follows some of the ever-growing floating population of 150 million, many of whom migrate to the cities of the Eastern seaboard in search of a brighter future and the prospect of higher paid work in the factories.  It shows the exodus from old towns and cities to new accommodation specially constructed as part of the worlds most ambitious resettlement programme.

The Vanishing: Altered Landscapes and Displaced Lives on the Yangtze River also highlights the gradual, dramatic transformation of these once vibrant places into broken communities, uncertain what the future holds as the last vestiges of river life are played out along the historical Three Gorges.

He also has some other projects on social landscape of China.  I find it kind of cliche, but on the other hand, what can I made out of a camera on China social landscape?

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