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Publisher Note

Little North Road is a photographic collaboration that looks at a pedestrian bridge in the middle of Guangzhou. The bridge serves as a symbolic gateway into China from Africa. At the heart of this book is a selection of images collected from two Chinese itinerant portrait photographers, Wu Yong Fu and Zeng Xian Fang. Equipped with digital cameras, they have made a living making portraits for Africans who wanted a memento of their time in China. Daniel Traub's photographs explore the broader dynamics of the area and provide a context through which to look at the work of Wu and Zeng. As China's power and reach have grown, it has become a new center of gravity pulling people from remote lands. Guangzhou has become a magnet for Africans and other groups who have come in search of opportunity and to trade in the goods produced in the Pearl River Delta. Recent developments, however, call into question whether this cosmopolitanism is an inevitable part of China's future or a moment that has already passed.

Photobook

Little North Road

— Africa in China

by Daniel Traub

Publisher
Release Place Heidelberg, Germany
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2015
Credits
Artist: Daniel Traub
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-3-86828-629-8
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Africa, China, Migrations
Methods Photography
Language English
Format Softcover with PVC dust jacket
Dimensions 21.0 × 27.8 × 1.5 cm
Pages 176
Technique Offset