Yang Wenbin, whose work on e-cigarettes appeared in last month’s Depth of Field, visited a Virtual Reality convention in Shanghai this July. Virtual Reality is growing explosively in China. Yang’s photos focus on the disconnect between its adherents and the world around them.
Type in a URL wrong and a 404 tells you the web page you are searching for cannot be found. In the 1990s, 404 City had 100,000 inhabitants but was not listed on any map, according to Xu Haifeng’s story in Sixth Tone. The city was built in 1958 to house a nuclear bomb, but by 2006, most people had been relocated elsewhere. Now largely deserted, the empty spaces revealed in Xu’s images seem locked in a time long since past.
Photographer Stamlee documented the lives of residents in Zhangjiakou, Chengde, and Baoding, in Hebei province, cities to the west, north, and northwest of Beijing. To protect the environment, in recent years the government has implemented regulations on animal grazing, mining, textile factories, and other high-polluting industries, leaving locals with few options to make a living.
Another ambitious project marking the anniversary of The Long March is The Paper’s immersive interactive project by Chen Ronghui. A World Press Photo winner, Chen spent two months producing both photography and video, and visiting historic cities along the route of the Long March. Using monuments commemorating the Long March in each city as a visual symbol and a thread throughout the story, the interactive feature is a collection of stories of people remembering this significant period in China’s history.
Li Junhui, a staff photographer at China Youth Daily, spent a month traveling along the route of the Long March with medium format film cameras. It has been more than 80 years since Mao Zedong led his supporters in the fledgling Communist Party 6,000 miles from their embattled base south of the Yangtze River to the desert caves around Yan’an. Li’s own slow retracing of the former leader’s steps seems to decelerate the pace of modern life, slowing movement, playing with light, and simplifying compositions to meditate on today’s China.
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