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Collection: Photo Essay 01 2014
Camera: Fujifilm X-E2
Lens: Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS
Location: Lujiabang, Shanghai
Date: Jan 5, 2014
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/210
Date Uploaded: Jan 14, 2014

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 Over the last 4 years I have had the pleasure to visit Shanghai on business on a number of occasions. I love visiting Shanghai and will miss it now my focus is on other parts of the world.


I have noticed that the landscape changes very rapidly in this vast metropolis. Buildings are torn down and skyscrapers appear in their place in the blink of an eye so to speak. I have found my favourite parts of Shanghai are those nooks and crannies tucked away behind the biggest tourist locations.

One of these places is near to the famous Lujiabang Fabric Market (where all expats and tourists flock to get tailor made clothes). 2 minutes walk from the fabric market and you find yourself in an area that remains fiercely local and is full of traditional homes. Not so much any more. It seems these homes are being demolished to make way for yet more high rises.......

When I was in Shanghai in November 2013 I decided to document some of the changes that are taking place. The idea being I continue to document the evolution of the change during the next visits to Shanghai.

In the distance you can see the Shanghai World Financial Centre, with the Shanghai Tower under construction (by completion this will be China's tallest building at 2,073 ft)


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 03/08/2015 12:08:05 AM
Comments from the essay jury
"Lujiabang, Shanghai" by 21_F.gif salmiakki

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D: Wonderful journey into the forgotten and discarded, overlooked or knocked aside by capitalist greed and indifference. The story of endurance and endeavour.

C: A wonderful walk around a place that challenges our notions of the eastern cultures. Powerful and well shot.

P: An essay of a place. In the first photo, the woman dares us to look further. After that, every photo has a floor of rubble. So much is said simply with that, but she also shows how the rubble is coped with, worked around and denied. In the process, she shows us not just a specific place but a specific time... the moment is captured with an essay instead of a shutter click.

H:

Dislikes - but really a suggestion

As a protest, it would be stronger if referenced with the names and occupation of the persons in the images.

Likes

The old has to make way for the new. Is it so? Should it be? Here it is the low-rise that has to make way for the high-rise. No space for the way of life to exist in the cleansed environment, that is true. What is best? How to plan for co-existence, if at all possible. Where to get political will to do so? The only possibility left here is to document it, and educate the future desicionmakers thus. Done well here, in my opinion.
01/17/2014 08:39:17 AM
Pretty amazing shots. Good processing and the details of the subjects are marvelous.
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