Day Dreamers

– April 8, 2008

Since my first trip in China (2004) I have been shooting Chinese people having a nap on the streets during the day. Over the months and years, i have been collecting hundreds of them. Here are my favorites. To me, those ‘dreamers’ embodies the blurred inter-relation between private and public space in China. Those ‘dreamers’ photos also show the opposite side of the cliché presenting Chinese people as really hard-working people… This series had been shown in festivals around Asia (Lianzhou, Angkor and Rangoon), published in magazines (VSD in France or Axel Springer in Germany)…

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About Eric Leleu

I have been living in China as a photographer for a few years. My brain is obsessed by concepts such as authority, consumerism, capitalism, geopolitics, sociology or urbanity... In a word, I am interested in our contemporaries (you and I) and the world as it becomes. My focus is the dynamics of public spaces: the interrelationship between the authority, the crowd and the individual. As for my eye, it is looking for colors and intensity. My dream is simple: having a few of my photos living longer than me...