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Ombres Chinoises

Text by : Jean-Robert Dantou
Publisher : Atlantica
Release Date : 2004
ISBN : 2843947472
Book Size : 13,5 x 18,5 cm
Langage : French
40 pages

« Chinese shadows » is a photograph book in black and white which traces a crossing of China by train, from the occidental coast to the deserted extremity of Chinese-west. “ These images give to see and feel rather than understand : these Chinese always in movement, often a crowd, rarely alone, except for sleep time. Cheerful, quarrelsome sometimes, and always curious for the stranger, always welcoming.

This story is the one of a decoding, the one of a China who is getting by hundreds of train and thousands of landscapes : from night six Chinese shadows have get out, then from shadows to faces, from faces to looks, redraft themselves, fragile, the memory of a sensitive crossing. Here are these Chinese and this China as I saw them, through a journey of 15000 km by train, from Pekin to Kashgar then from Pekin to Hong Kong.”