Urban Villages of Guangzhou #1 - Signed Limited Edition Photograph

Right in the centre of the third largest city in China, there are dozens of urban villages, wall-to-wall with gigantic shopping malls and glitzy new skyscrapers. Like open-air time capsules locked in by greedy developers and poor city planning, these rural villages are accessed through labyrinthine alleyways or whatever space is left between the old houses and the new developments. Inside the villages, the pace of life is very different from the outside. The remaining residents come and go, still full of energy despite their advanced age. Children play happily outside their homes, chickens, ducks, goats and dogs roam free. Patches of vegetables are still being grown and small stalls selling locally grown fruit and vegetables thrive in these bizarre, self-sufficient urban farms, hiding just behind sophisticated avenues which are a staple symbol of modern China. Limited Edition of 25 Archival Pigment Prints. *Signed Certificate of Authenticity with Edition Number. *Printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl paper (285 g/m²) with a special coating to ensure a classy, pearly shine. This luxurious gallery standard paper's intense whiteness displays impressive contrasts and pictorial depth. *Very water and humidity resistant. *100-year luminosity. *Printed with a white border for easy framing and shipped in a hard tube protected with bubble wrap and acid-free paper. - Can be framed or mounted under acrylic glass upon request. Larger sizes also available. Contact the artist for more details. This Artwork is available as: 80 x 80cm l Limited Edition of 12 + 3AP's 60 x 60cm l Limited Edition of 25 40 x 40cm l Limited Edition of 50