12-AUG-2006
The child seen asleep in the previous image awakens to a rush of traffic beneath the overpass that is her home. She smiled at me when I put a coin in her bucket.
There are many children forced to beg like this in Shanghai. There are too many for the authorities to help in this, the wealthiest city in China.
12-AUG-2006
She lies alone on an overpass near the Bund, no family in sight, a bucket of coins at her feet. People stop to stare at her, and move on.
She is like a piece of paper that someone has thrown away. It is a hot night, and a cold world.
10-MAR-2004
The posters hanging on the doors of Shanghai's antique shops walk our eyes through the fabled history of this city. At the end of the road, the shoppers remind us that Old Shanghai is now but a memory. It will never come back.
27-MAR-2005
Huge screen. Dark Room. Blurred figures. Media congests and dominates our lives. People are stressed, and struggle to escape from manipulation. The woman's body vanishes in darkness just as a black shadow rushes past her, making a real world seem unreal. I can't help questioning what really is the reality here?