A staggering thirty million people live with the jurisdiction of Chongqing, making it the largest municipality on earth. Yet I chose to use only one of its residents in this image. He has deliberately placed himself in the middle of a huge staircase, before one of the city’s largest and grandest buildings, its Hall of the People. He seems to be eating something, and has a bag at his side. I arranged this picture very formally as a study in scale incongruity. This lone figure, dwarfed by the grandiose structure, certainly tells a story. Perhaps I should have titled the picture “Hall of the Person.” A few moments after I made this shot, the local police asked him to depart. Apparently they took a dim view of his use of the facility.