In Beijing China, there are many alleyways around the Forbidden City in the past, it was called Hutong. It is the witness of the history of Beijing,, embody the culture of old Beijing. Now most of them are demolished. I tried to capture the situation of all kind of people have during the period of Hutong demolished. .
Communication, it is probably the lack of it we felt when leaving Shangai on the way to the Xinjiang. It was like falling into a strange world along the ancient Silk Road: being in China without feeling like it and to catch a glimpse of Middle-East without reaching it. These pictures transcribe some signs we still have to decode and some exchanges we would like to understand. (Pictures from Xinjiang – China – 2004)
Once you passed the crowdy Angkor Wat and Bayon temples, you follow some dusty trails into the jungle. Depending of the light, trees are going through different kind of green and the grey stones of temples ruins seem to be parts of this vegetal world.