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Title:Chinese Tourists
Chinese tourists take photos of themselves with iphones in front of Lujiazui skyline, Pudong District, Shanghai. Shanghai plays a more and more important role in today's China in terms of economy.
Biography:
Jian Gao (b. 1987, PRC) is a social documentary photographer, Overseas Press Club Foundation scholar and currently a staff member at Magnum Photos in New York.
He dedicated himself for personal long-term documentary photography project. In 2012, he was mentored by VII Photo Agency photographer Ed Kashi and worked on a project- Red Fragments, travelled over ten thousand miles from northeast part of China to the extremely far west on his own in order to explore social issues that are caused by Chinese government policies and their environmental impacts. In May 2014, he got a break... |
