It was not only a break but also a pause to reflect about me working in China, writing a blog on something I like as photography is a pleasure but in general living in China can be the opposite of a pleasure. We are all waiting for this 60th anniversary of "Celebration" of Chinese Government so some censorship can be lifted up, many sites are banned right now, impossible to read interesting blogs, no facebook (well this is perhaps something i do appreciate....) and no other western "Evil" sites like twitter....
there is a sentence i write it down by reading an interesting book called Empire (written by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri) , the sentence is from Tacitus and is reported at the beginning of the book (well the second part of the sentences but I will write the whole sentence) , Tacitus already describes the idea of what is an Empire : "To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace ", I would say that perhaps China did not make a desert but rather a "zone" of modernization such as skyscrapers, metro lines, new shopping mall, highways and so on without facing the improvement of human freedom . Living and believing in modernity and in the same time not allowing people, the few of them (perhaps the 0,004 per cent of chinese population) to express criticism.... is a totally failure for my opinion....
For this post today I will choose an art piece from Bansky, Bansky for me is the artist (or human being) which has more a clear view on the so called "modern Society" we are living on. Sometimes is hard to find a photo which can tell a lot of things within a frame, in this case bansky does the rest.... I will post more about him, many piece of his art can be used to visualize a concept, something that photojournalism , nowadays, does not do anymore.....
