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While in Beijing in 2002 I spent an afternoon strolling around the hutong, the old, decrepit alleys around the Bell Tower. Most of the photos I took that afternoon are in colour; I'll upload them some other time. Here are a few unspectacular but scenic black and whites of a place which the locals would love to tear down and replace with 23- ( Read more... )

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I just put these together because they're all the same size and were all taken in China in the autumn of 2002. I would have added a few more transition photos for greater cohesion, but sadly, the ones I wanted to group with these all had different sizes and I couldn't resize them. They rather distracted from the larger images, so I decided to keep ( Read more... )

I took several dozens of black-and-white photos while in China, quite a few of which I'll post here in the next few days. For now, here's a short series to start things off, taken in Pingyao, Shanxi. For the non-Sinologists among you, Pingyao is China's best-preserved walled town, with lots of gorgeous, not overly restored Ming/Qing-era buildings ( Read more... )