the china collection

Donat Kamber

A long-term project full of truth and poetry
As part of this long-term photographic project in the Period of 1988 to 1993, powerful scenes from a distant, strange and forgotten world. Large-format tableaus tell of one for Chinese very unusually liberal, calm and peaceful periods of time. After the end of the Mao Zedong era. His campaigns have shooked the country. But before the all-encompassing reform of the «four Modernizations», from leader Deng Xiaoping, who results of which we admire in China today and their Processes can now be potentiated again with the Silk Road Economic Belt.

Over 5’000 film slides have to be processed and scanned, restored, protected and saved for the upcoming future.

worshipping

worshipping

floating restaurant

floating restaurant

shopping street

shopping street

marketplace

marketplace

gobi Desert

gobi Desert

rush hour

rush hour

energy distribution

energy distribution

chess tournament

chess tournament

city life

city life

country life

country life

courtyard house

courtyard house

early bird concert

early bird concert

bamboo forest

bamboo forest

backyard buffalo

backyard buffalo

pearl farming

pearl farming

brahmaputra

brahmaputra

coal collectors

coal collectors

playground

playground

tool manufacturers

tool manufacturers

chairman

chairman

silk weaving

silk weaving

tibetan highlands

tibetan highlands

tea house

tea house

water ways

water ways

tin foundry

tin foundry

garden architecture

garden architecture

land’s end

land’s end

bamboo forest

bamboo forest