Marx and Mao Photograph - Limited Edition of 7

Statues of Marx and Mao in a closed down factory in Beijing, China - Analog medium format. This Image ist part of the series „Shut Down – Industrial Ruins in the East“. In few other places are becoming, being and passing more dramatically expressed than in shut-down factories, mines and foundries. In a total of fourteen countries Christoph Lingg tracked down numerous industrial ruins: buildings from the textile, chemical, oil and heavy industries; processing plants for sugar and fish; brickyards and breweries – witnesses of times past that have been left to decay. In these photographs he has captured the melancholy of a bygone era. The pictures reflect not only economic developments and the way people related to work and the environment, but also the identity of entire countries and regions.