One child policy – China

– July 1, 2008

I have a brother and a sister. Difficult for me to imagine what this generation should feel like to not be able to have brothers/sisters. Resignation ? This wide topic would require more time and effort to be properly covered. I shot those images (4×5”) in the early morning, kids going to school.

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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...