Shikumen of Shanghai

Now in Shanghai, I explored the ruins our photography professor showed us as part of a class field trip. The ruins were once old homes in the shikumen style. These shikumen were a mix of European and Chinese architecture that flourished in the early 1900s, especially in Shanghai. At this site they were mostly demolished, now reduced to frames of houses once existing to make way for the new.

What struck me were the personal objects and decorations left behind in the rubble, still existing in vivid colour among the broken stones. For our final project, I went back on my own and took photos of what I could find. These were to become my project, “Shikumen of Shanghai.”

Read more at Latam Dialogue’s feature of my Shanghai and Trujillo photos here.