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– October 20, 2009

This is a series called ‘subtitles’. It presents red banners with Chinese characters on them, and the translation below… Something I always wanted to understand since I am in China. What messages the Chinese government actually deliver to its citizens ? It is a work I started recently but that I decided to stand-by for a while, it is not going the direction I wanted, it is too dark and ‘photojournalistic’ to my taste… I want to follow it in different cities in China to make the work more global and comprehensive.

Under progress…

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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...