Snapshots

Social criticism (2x4)

Air date: Jan 01, 2019

The China of the excluded, as seen by “lawyers” in the field. Rampant pollution, colossal differences in wealth, massive rural exodus, the first “AIDS villages” etc.… 2 photojournalism pioneers, Lu Guang and Zhang Xinmin, sift through the sombre reality of “hypergrowth”, while Liu Zheng, one of the leading names in contemporary Chinese photography, reflects on the ills of a civilisation that is prepared to wipe out the past. The China of the excluded, as seen by “lawyers” in the field.