Upon reading an Chinese contemporary art article, I got fascinated by one Chinese photographer.
Bai Xiaoci has chosen the imposing architecture of government buidling as his subject.
These buidling are vast, majestic and with enormous plazas in front of them.
Bai Xiaoci has made trips all over China to photograph these wonders of China's urbanization. With his project he wants to show the Chinese growth, that even penetrates in the remote countryside. His works has also a lot of symbolism, like the power of the impersonal Communist Pary versus the small common people.
Party members often want to show of their status and start to organise huge building projects in the hope to be commemorated after their reign. The big market of real estate also wants a cut in the deal. Wherever the Party is building, new housing projects with mushroom out of the ground and pricees will soar up.
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| People’s Government, Yingquan County, Fuyang, Anhui Province |
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| City Government, Shenzhen |
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| People’s Government, Changxing, Zhejiang Province | | | |
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| Chengdu city government building, Sichuan-province |
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| Ordos city government building, Inner mongolia |
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| Hohhot city government building, Inner mongolia |
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| Ningxiang county government building, Zhejiang-province |
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| Shanghai city government building. pudong district |
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