PDN Video Pick: Acclaimed Beijing Portrait Project, Expanded with Video

January 28, 2015 Marco | Editor

With support from a long-time client and a creative approach to funding, photographer Sim Chi Yin has just released this video showing an old project from a new, more immersive angle. The video profiles Zhang Xi, a college graduate turned street peddler who is part of Beijing’s “Rat Tribe,” so named because they live in sub-standard apartments in the basements and former bomb shelters of the city.

Sim’s portraits of “Rat Tribe” basement dwellers, which she began making in 2010, have been widely published–and widely acclaimed. She previously produced a multimedia slideshow of the …read more

Via: PDN Pulse

Marco | Editor

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