FACES OF SHANGHAI
The character of a city manifests itself in the personality of the people, who live and work in it.
May 25th-June 8th 2007
ISLAND6 Art Center Shanghai
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168 Faces of Shanghai: For this series Thomas photographs people with diverse social, professional and cultural backgrounds, all living in Shanghai. However, he confronts the viewer with a different problem: whether celebrities or successful businessmen, artists or common workers, all of his subjects are presented in the same pose in the fashion of a passport photograph. In front of a neutral background, without clothes and…