May 9, 2017 Comments Off on Through the lens of Natalie Kornalska: China’s every day life Views: 2206 Imago, Photography

When somebody mentions China, our immediate thoughts are about its vast supercities, their rapid growth, economic boom, pollution, or the alarming clouds of smog embracing the capital of Beijing. It might be even hard to imagine how much China has progressed as a world power in the past two decades, however, The Guardian contributor Xiaolu Gio help us out pretty well, saying that, “my village didn’t even have a traffic light. Now it has 1.4 million people.”

On the other hand, Natalie Kornalska photography work, following her recent stay in China comes also with an intention of expressing her own personal feeling and experience of China, or as she puts it, “it’s a country of huge contrasts.” We thought you might enjoy the selection of her photography work below.

“In China, people don’t mind to decorate their car interiors with a bust of Mao Zedong right next to a Hello Kitty toy and Shiva statue. This is a country of extremely quick development, where you must be able to keep up with the technology or it might happen that you will stand 12 hours of a train ride because you didn’t know how to book seat tickets via an app,” says Natalie.

“A country where you can pay by scanning QR code in the smallest shop of the village.“

“When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.” – Jean-Pascal Tricoire

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Tags: canton, Changsha, china, Guangzhou, Hunan, Lifestyle, street art, street photography