AMBROISE TÉZENAS: Beijing: Theatre Of The PeopleWinner European Publishers Award for Photography We, in the West, are fascinated by the development of China. For the last half of the twentieth century its borders were effectively closed and, with rare exceptions, the only images that came out of the country were either propaganda or coverage of a tragic news event. Between 2001 and 2005, French photographer, Ambroise Tzenas made several visits to Beijing. As he wandered through the city he began to

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I can win their trust

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space and different eras

looking at a deer

Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery and author of Photography and War (Reaktion

Over two decades he explored the country

low-lit airstrips and a long voyage aboard the last working Royal Mail Ship

It features taxi drivers

of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

His work is primarily documentary and focuses largely on the Balkans