Absurdity, Allegory and China

The CCTV HQ project & site-specific graffiti. December 9, 2009 4:16 PM

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Warning: imagined full-frontal content below
In my last post I wrote about the pornographic flap over the CCTV Headquarters complex, the project that continues to knot a lot of knickers. And there is no sign that it’s about to let up. It has become the piñata that won’t stop giving: whack it again and it keeps [...]

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The following photo strip is from the distant backgrounds of four photos I shot early Saturday morning (May 30, 2009) along the Xinkai River in Tianjin. I was shooting something else entirely, and which turned out to be of little interest except for the small fragment in each one where these four came from, taken [...]

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Early morning Tianjin, May 5, 2009. Fisherman and the curious, watching. This is one of my favorite photos. So many hands behind so many backs, watching guys gut fish. This is Tianjin: men with fish and others watching beside the river. There is a story here in the shadows of the Jingang Bridge, though it [...]

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