POLLY BRADEN: China Between

POLLY BRADEN: China Betweenwith essays by David Campany & Jennifer Higgie China Between is a photographic exploration of the modern city culture of contemporary China. When the Peoples Republic set up its Special Economic Zones in the 1980s communist China entered into global trade and international capital. The goal was financial but new money also brought new values and new ways of life. Polly Bradens photography is an intimate response to the material and psychological

yet the estates themselves continue

for this is a small society rapidly moving towards western standards

French photographer

Brad was on the phone to George setting up my next link

writing in 1000words magazine

69 colour plates

Louis Vuitton leads and pushed around in prams

If inhibitions were lowered by the seemingly vast quantities of brandy and Coke that were imbibed

225mm x 245mm

Redolent with both sadness and hope Things Aren’t Always as Mother Reports is an extended series of colour portraits and landscapes made in the documentary style through which Paul Cohen interrogates the idea of family

is the winning project of the inaugural Syngenta Photography Award

using the aprons’ floodlights