Katharina Hesse

CHINA: ONCE IN BEIJING

August 2007: an old house before demolishion....
   
August 2007 : Beijingers enjoy the evening outside
   
August 2007: an elderly man guards his house with a baseball bat in case he is forcibly evicted ( he had to move in in November)
     
  
February 2008 : fireworks
  
September 2007 : an abandoned apartment that was demolished in November
   
August 2007 : a woman sits in her tiny one bedroom before it is demolished....
     
  
Beijing ,September 2007 : last hurah in a bar before it was demolished
   
Beijing ,August 2007 : an old building is dwarfted by the new CCTV construction
   
August 2007 : open-air movie theatre for construction workers after a projection...
     
  
September 2007 : an area that was home to a small neighbourhood some days after it had been bulldozed.
   
August 2007 : Mr X, a worker without a registration ( hukou) , spends the last days in his modest apartment before he decides to look for another refuge. ( his home was demolished later on )
   
August 2007 : remains of a family that was evicted
     
  
August 2007 : modern buildings
   
August 2007 : a man sees his new neighbourhood growing before his own home is demolished.