Cultural China: The Unseen Stories of Shanghai and Wuzhen

This series peels back the modern sheen of Shanghai to reveal its layered past—where crumbling construction sites and narrow alleyways coexist with glass towers and luxury cars. These are the spaces not found in tourist guides: the shadowed skeletons of redevelopment, the children weaving joy through gray ruins, the vendors who glide through ancient canals like echoes of a slower time.

Captured in both black-and-white and color, these images celebrate the resilience, contradictions, and hidden beauty of everyday life. From the industrial textures of urban decay to the timeless grace of Wuzhen’s waterborne traditions, each frame is a quiet testament to China’s cultural memory—part of a history still unfolding.