Still China
Project Dossier
Alessandro Magny.
I am a young French and Italian architectural engineer and photographer based in Paris, married to a Chinese.
This dossier presents my ongoing photographic project, which is the outcome of exploring within, and reflecting on, the life and landscape of China.
These images are filtered by my training, focused on the future as much as on the appreciation of the past.
In 2017 and 2018, after meeting my spouse from China we undertook two long journeys in her home country — before leaving, I was unsure but curious.
While traveling, we looked for China and its culture beyond common places and metropolises. I set out to record and tried to understand this changing country through photography, discovering what still remains of its ancient fragile beauty.
I was drawn to the vibrant humanity of villages and towns as much as to the warm and welcoming tones of old wooden houses, or to the quiet immensity of some rural landscapes.
This project is not a documentary commission or a rigorous inventory: they are snapshots halfway between street photography, landscape paintings and travel diary.
I photographed places and objects laden by history and culture; elsewhere they would be protected and enshrined, but there in China, they appeared caught in the turmoil of daily use, very much alive.
4000+ Kilometers
40 days of travel
100 pages
150+ photos
One photo book
I hope to open this project to other contributors who could offer to collaborate in writing on my images or editors for the photobook.
I hope to open this project to other contributors who could offer to collaborate in writing on my images or editors for the photobook.
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