The photographs in the series History Images are
of histories, in the form of cities in China, either being
destroyed or created at this juncture in time. They are of past
histories, in the form of traditional buildings and
neighborhoods, urban fabrics, and natural landscapes, in the
process of being erased. They are of the absence of histories,
in the form of construction sites, built upon an erasure of the
past so complete that one would never know a past had ever
existed. And they are of the anticipation of future histories,
yet to unfold, in the form of newly built cities. MORE >
