Almost Hell

Im planning a shoot after looking through Cau Youtau's, a chinese photographers images.
Below is a good site showing some very interesting work. The other is specifically Cau Youtau.

http://www.artscenechina.com/

http://www.artscenechina.com/chineseart/artists/chinesephotography/caoyoutao.htm

Contempory art in china, especially photography has become very dark and shocking to viewers in the western world. Artist’s in china make, for example; the UK and US look better as a society and much higher up in economy. This is because people in the western world are arrogant and tend to love themselves and so playing to this will get them to purchase the work. When I look at this images I feel better about myself even if they are shocking and disturbing images purely because I am not in that situation.

Wang Ningde is another chinese photographer, i want to take certain aspects of his images for my own, for example; back of the head shots, keeping the subjects anonymous etc

http://www.artscenechina.com/chineseart/artists/chinesephotography/wangningde.htm

In china around the time of 1979 a one child rule was brought in to prevent the increase of china’s population and despite this being very controversial within and outside the country a survey undertaken at the pew research centre showed that just over 75% of the Chinese population supports the policy. Wang Nindge used this policy for his images. Shots of children from behind staring into light. The children used as subjects were male, this was because due to the one child rule couples were trying for males (in this culture all of the families possessions are passed on to the eldest male in the family/ the son) as a result of this there were many infant deaths, being female as the families didn’t want them and were unable to try for another child.