• I am searching for quotations to use for my publication that goes with the images that I have taken
  • "Yang, who moved to the Chinese capital from Hunan in 2009, ran a drop-in centre for other migrants in his spare time and was one of many members of the public who rallied to help the tens of thousands of people given just days – and in some cases hours – to leave their homes on the fringes of the city."

  • The migrants were evicted as part of a 40-day campaign launched last week to address safety threats in the aftermath of a residential fire that killed 19 people this month.

  • The campaign corresponds with a bigger push over the last year to limit the size of Beijing’s population, a drive that has involved shutting down wholesale markets and warehouses and clearing slum areas.

Source: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2121647/welcome-beijing-where-helping-homeless-can-get-you

• Looking for quotes to put in for publication:

  • “Where will they go?” Zhang said. “If they return home, can they find a job or be able to support their family? Must they be evicted in such a rigid, uniform way?”

  • Beijing’s authorities have moved to evict thousands of people, mainly poorer migrant workers, in the safety crackdown after a fire killed 19 people. 

  • Some were forced out of their rented accommodation amid freezing temperatures with only a few days’ notice – sometimes even within hours.

  • The migrant workers’ plight has struck a nerve among the area’s residents, particularly among the middle class and educated.

Source: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2122124/evictions-waken-beijing-middle-class-plight-migrant

As this happened recently and the video is really hard to watch, to see their workplace's or homes getting torn down because the government said so and the government's plan. It is ironic how when I was younger people came to Beijing for job opportunities but now they are forced to go back to their home. I wonder, what will they be doing now? How would this change things? 

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/08/asia/china-migrant-workers-evictions-beijing/index.html

•  Such a simple set up but the image is so powerful 
• Location: abandoned building site
• Backdrop: Future development building of the abandoned site 
• Model: your average citizens 

Source: 

British Journal of Photography

http://arthurcrestani.com/bad-city-dreams-7/

Images that can be potentially used for my backdrop

Source: http://www.thatsmags.com/beijing/post/18632/watch-sanlitun-bar-street-gets-steamrolled

• During crit, this artist was mentioned for me to look at and I am obsessed with how she took her photos. 
• The backdrop seems to be printed on to thin newsprint paper, assembling a big image through using several A3 size papers, I am more drawn to the second image because of how real the image feels; placing something that is there there, and getting real-life people to participate and make sense of the whole image. As my idea plays very similar to what she is doing but instead I had in mind of a whole big print as the backdrop and not like what she is doing. I want to explore her way of doing things. 

Source: https://www.designboom.com/art/noemie-goudal-photography/

“Everyone is looking for their own place, but I still haven’t found (a place) anywhere,” said the rubbish collector from eastern Anhui province who moved to Beijing 20 years ago.

China’s past three decades of rapid economic development spurred a mass migration of some 280 million workers from rural areas to big cities, many of them taking low-wage jobs in the manufacturing, construction and service sectors.

Unable to secure official residency, which brings with it access to social welfare services and education, migrants found homes in aging inner-city buildings, overcrowded dormitories, basements and even sewers.

Beijing’s municipal government launched a campaign this year to eradicate what it called an “urban disease” of illegal construction and unsafe buildings in the city of nearly 22 million people.

Hutongs, traditional homes built around courtyards in neighborhoods of narrow alleyways, were among the first to be “rectified”. The campaign has since spread to more suburbs. 

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-migrants/migrants-moved-on-as-beijing-deals-with-building-disease-idUSKBN1AR0QZ

These are the images that I took during the windiest day in Beijing, the shoot did not go as planned and my backup plan was to use what I have and digital or hand collage it to look better. I really like how the film color came out with, it mix really well with the weather. I left the blank backdrop stand in there just so I can collage it in a little better.

• The first time seeing his work was at the Barbican's Another Kind of Life Photography on the Margins Exhibition; one of the works that captured my attention was an Image of a disco ball placed in the middle of nowhere, and I love the effect that it gave to me; how I wondered why it was placed there, what is the significance of that location and what was this place before and this is the kind of feeling I want to give towards my viewers when they see my final work

Source: 

Another Kind of Life Photography on the Margins @Barbican

http://alecsoth.com/photography/?page_id=14

• Potential images to use for the backdrop 

Source: http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1857/under-the-skin-of-beijings-migrant-worker-village

• I think they are really powerful images of before and after, and seeing something that was there before completely removed makes that setting feel very empty, as there is no life and meaning to this city anymore. Their life has completely been taken away by the authority. How has this changed their life from this point? 

Source: https://theinitium.com/article/20171229-photo-beijing-removed-before-after/

• Before and after of the famous Sanlitun bar, it was torn down while I started college and when I went back to visit during Christmas break there was nothing there anymore, clean and empty. 

• I really like the style of his photography, the photos look very plastic and fake and I think that because of the bright lighting and the clean background, as well as how random the model is staged for this setting
• Documented aesthetic but also at the same time it looks planned

Source: https://www.artsy.net/artist/jeff-wall

• I really like the posing of the people, it is very raw and especially with the first image, I kind of like how the people are holding up the backdrop instead of using the backdrop stand, it seems like they are more involved in the overall image and you wonder where they are taking the image to. 

Source: https://www.magnumphotos.com/events/event/sharing-visions-masterclass-contemporary-image-making/

• When my mom mentioned me something about the government kicking out migrant workers or at least planning to, I didn't actually think it will happen. However, it started to happen little by little and now several streets of what used to be there, not there anymore. The next day delivery has been slow down due to the lack of workers and street food stand has also been taken down forcing the workers to loose their job. 

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/07/china-move-millions-people-homes-anti-poverty-drive