Totems Photos by Alain Delorme
Alain Delorme, photographer from Paris, captures fascinating photos of bicycle carriers in Shanghai, China. The new Totems series by Alain Delorme plunges us into the core of contemporary China and its complexity.
Under the blue sky of a highly colored Shanghai, men carry throughout the city unbelievable piles. These precarious columns made of cardboard or chairs appear as new totems of a society in complete transformation, both a factory for the world and a new El Dorado of the market economy.
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I have seen these bicycle carriers before, but never carrying ‘so’ much? It puts us westerners to shame really when we use vans and trucks for almost anything!
Love the colouring on these photos too though. Almost hdr but not quite? Some look very much set-up, but very eye-catching to say the least, thank you.