A la verticale de l’ouest

  2004, China meets again the west in the business lounges of Shanghai or Paris. My last film rolls are covered by pictures of contrasts with a taste of modern ying-yang, mobile phones used by cyclos, modern building floating on a sea of old style food stands. By this exhibition, i want to tell the story of another meeting, where the central Asia meets the Far East, at the exact place where, in the past, the fuzzy Chinese western border was disapearing in the taklamakan desert sand dunes. All these pictures (except one) have been taken in the Xinjiang province,…