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Shenzhen Longgang Supporting Text |
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Although located outside of China’s most successful Special Economic Zone, Longgang district has shared the rapid economic growth of its provincial capital Shenzhen. What were agricultural villages barely thirty years ago are now part of a seemingly endless conurbation of tiled factory buildings, shopping outlets and people packed tightly into the most utilitarian of living spaces.
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Martin Coyne Made in China |
Martin Coyne is a documentary photographer whose new work deals with factories in the Longgang district of China that produce shoes for Western markets. One obvious context for his photographs is contemporary history. In 1949, Communists led by Mao triumphed and their Nationalist rivals, under Chiang Kai-shek, fled to the island of Taiwan.
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Crossing the Line Supporting Text |
On February 5 2005 Bingu wa Mutharika announced his resignation from the United Democratic Front and formed his own United Party. He was at the time, and still is, the President of Malawi. Over 50 MPs abandoned their own parties to join Mutharika’s. This action, known as ‘crossing the line’, has sent the Malawian political system into chaos.
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Promised Land Supporting Text |
From Shave Green to Southampton Water - a 50 year journey
Proud faces, though tired. Eyes of young and old that show the collective inherited pain still after fifty years since driven from their Forest home. Driven from the enclave atop Brokis Hill in Shave Wood, the place where so many of their kith and kin were birthed and died. Shave Green Compound, a mere motley collection of higgledy piggledy shacks and tents, yet which were real and vibrant homes, where real lives were lived and real loves won and lost, real troubles and real happinesses ran their course. Driven by the do-gooder Welfare State into unsuitable housing, bricks and mortar dwellings, characterless and spiritless. Driven apart from the interdependent community, from extended family and close friends. Driven to choose between confined insecurity or the open road again.
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