September 23, 2008
September 20, 2008
September 19, 2008
Peanuts | Farmers
Everybody once has eaten them.. peanuts. But who knows where they come from and which road they travel before ending up in your mouth.
For Houz International I'm going to follow the process of peanuts and sesame seeds. This will result in a reportage about a trading company, their products and the people they work with.
For Houz International I'm going to follow the process of peanuts and sesame seeds. This will result in a reportage about a trading company, their products and the people they work with.
September 18, 2008
September 17, 2008
September 12, 2008
Behind the Billboards | Final
The Economical rise of Beijing has also it's shadowside. Every year many immigrants arrive at the West Railway Station. Most of them, in the search for fortune, find work as an constructor or collect recyclable waste. They are the hope of their family's far away in the village. Nobody want to lose their face, so they can only go back with enough money to spend.
"One World One Dream" say the 4 big billboards wich you'll se when leaving the trainstation. Those who where not able to find their fortune and therefor could not go home because of shame, lived in these billboards.
China did everything to create a perfect and spotless image of the city for it's western visitors to the Olympic Games. That's why they cleaned up the whole area behind the billboards, as soon as the news went round about a western photographer who was trying to make contact with the immigrants.
The lives of these people shows the thin layer between what China wants the West to believe and the harsh reality.
This is the last photo made after the people were send away. See the slide show for all the photo's
"One World One Dream" say the 4 big billboards wich you'll se when leaving the trainstation. Those who where not able to find their fortune and therefor could not go home because of shame, lived in these billboards.
China did everything to create a perfect and spotless image of the city for it's western visitors to the Olympic Games. That's why they cleaned up the whole area behind the billboards, as soon as the news went round about a western photographer who was trying to make contact with the immigrants.
The lives of these people shows the thin layer between what China wants the West to believe and the harsh reality.
This is the last photo made after the people were send away. See the slide show for all the photo's
September 11, 2008
September 7, 2008
September 5, 2008
September 1, 2008
Back to Work
After a three weeks since the building-stop, the first workers are getting back to work. The building-stop was one of the measurements the Beijing government took to decrease air pollution for the Olympic Games.
Behind the Billboards | 1
Behind the billboards, just across the Beijing West Railway Station, people are living another dream in contrast to what China is trying to let us believe.
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