One of my recent work is called ”C(O)C(O)TV”. It is a series of images of the China 60th anniversary ceremony broadcasted on China Central Television (CCTV1). The images were shot with my iPhone camera and then rearranged on photoshop to build my own vision of this ceremony. I actually do not have a TV at home so I went to a Chinese neighbour’s place to share a seat on his sofa and watch the ceremony with him. I was quite surprised that he did not know the world-famous ‘tank man’ photo (shot in black and white in 1989 on Tiananmen square) where that Chinese student tried to block the tank. So i decided to record the military tanks passing by Tiananmen in… 2009.
The last photo of the series (“C(o)C(o)TV-12″) was published in Newsweek’s annual special edition magazine, Issue 2010, produced in conjunction with the World Economic Forum. The article is about ‘why China will NOT rule the world’… Also published in Newsweek Japan (January 2010).
