the china collection

light of switzerland

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.