Exhibition Captions
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Jinli Zhao
Shepherd on an Ancient Road, Longwan Canyon, Gansu, China, 2017 Category: Environment Longwan Canyon has resulted from a diversion of the ancient Yellow River. It has become a popular destination for local herdsmen to graze their livestock. |
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Jianping Li
Shadow Puppets, Shandong, 2020 Category: Work and Play Traditional Shadow Puppetry is deeply loved by the villagers. |
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Wei Wu
Grandpa’s Old Birdcages, Chengdu, 2021 Category: Home After the passing of her grandparents, the photographer revisited her family home and gathered together their belongings. Here are her grandfather’s birdcages. Her grandfather would walk the streets every morning bird-watching and always see his granddaughter on her way to school. |
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Arek Rataj
Bus 116, Shijiazhuang, China, 2016 Category: Home Often travelling on the 116 bus to the farthest corners of the Shijiazhuang area, the photographer observed the passengers. |
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Jianjun Huang
Seeking, Yeqing, Wenzhou, China, 2016 Category Winner: Water When the tide rises and falls, huge sea oysters can be seen clinging to the underside of the bridge. |
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Huaifeng Li
Double Act, Shandong, 2018 Category: Work and Play To succeed at becoming professional acrobats, children at this acrobatics school are on a tough training schedule every single day. |
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Adrian Bradshaw Swimmer, Bejing, 1985 Category: Water Cooling off on a hot summer day by diving into the canal. |
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OVERALL WINNER 2021
Huaifeng Li Dancing Dreams of a Mountain Girl, Shanxi 2020 Category: Work and Play As the poverty in rural China is alleviated, girls from the countryside gain the opportunity to learn to dance in the city. The girl captured in the photo is performing the dance for her grandmother when she returns home. |
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Qingjun Huang
Family Stuff – The Golden Anniversary Couple, Heilongjiang, 2017 Category Winner : Home Qingjun Huang has spent nearly a decade travelling to remote parts of China to persuade people who have sometimes never been photographed, to carry outside all their household possessions and pose for him. Amid China’s tumultuous dash to become rich the photographs in this extensive photo-essay will soon seem like records from a distant era. |
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Jianjun Huang
Steaming Buns, Zhejiang 2020 Category: Work and Play This is a local pastry shop in Xianju where the supply for steamed bread with a red seal on top is rarely able to supply the demand. |
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Xinhe Jiang
The Shipyard, Liaoning, 2017 Category: Environment In spring, flocks of snipe fly in from Australia and New Zealand and gather around the docks of Dandong Port in Liaoning Province, following the sounds of the boats. |
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Tongyu Yang
Seasonal Sea, Qingdao, 2016 Category Winner: Environment Every summer, a green algae called Enteromorpha appears, often several square kilometres wide. It floats on the sea and rushes to the shore. The local government have contributed funds to fight against it using fishing boats, mechanical cleaning, net interception and other efforts to suppress it. This photograph was created to awaken people’s awareness of the importance of marine protection. |
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Dong Wen
Micro World, Fujian, 2017 Category: Water An aerial photograph of water farms. |
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Cindy Lin
Family Home, 2020 Category: Home This photo collage explores the physical location of the photographers’ family home, which was knocked down in the 90s to make way for a luxury condo. |
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Qiyong Yu
Eroded Oasis, Yunnan, China, 2019 Category: Environment This was taken at a construction site in Dongchuan, Yunnan. On the lush green land there is a strange winding curvy road that’s rolled out by large construction machines. Seen from the above, it looks as if we are looking at a piece of a green leaf, eaten away by some insects, leaving us to ponder on the fragility of natural resources. |
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| Overall Winner 2020
Du Baoxian Me, 2020 This montage of self-portraits was created during the lockdown in 2020 as a reflection on the essential elements for survival. During this unsettling period when the artist was unable to see anyone else she used the tools she had to create a work in the time of COVID. |
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Yevhen Samuchenko
Two Ice Creams, Black Sea, 2017 Category: Water A long exposure of two frozen poles in winter sunset over the Black Sea.
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