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Black Shanxi |
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Teun Voeten |
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Opening September 16th, 2008 |
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Photographer Statement: In 2008, China will surpass the USA as main producer of carbon dioxide. Millions of cars, charcoal heating as well as China's aging and heavily polluting industry are responsible. If industrialization and economic growth is continuing at the current rate, an ecological disaster is in the making. This is already the case in Shanxi Province, the most polluted place of China. It produces 30 % of the country's coal while its electricity plants provide half of Beijing needs. Shanxi Province has become a grey hell, a gloomy industrial zone where soot covered sheep are herded through Dickensian alleys. Photographer Teun Voeten traveled last winter to the region and registered in stark, black and white photos the environmental destruction Shanxi. About the Photographer: Teun Voeten, who originally studied Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy. is an award winning photojournalist and author who has been covering the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sudan, Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza. His work has been published in Vanity Fair, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and National Geographic among others. He also a contributes to organizations such as the International Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. In 1996, Voeten published his first book, "Tunnelmensen", an account of 5 months living in an underground community of homeless in New York. In 2002 St. Martin's Press published "How de Body? Hope and Horror in Sierra Leone", describing the horrendous war in this West African country. Voeten, who is the father of a young boy, lives between Brussels and New York.
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The photography series is curated by Song Chong |
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Previous exhibitions at The Half King
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