Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
Shop deviantART for the
holidays and save BIG!
Click here! :holly:
[x]

deviantART

:date:
 

New Start by ~avotius:iconavotius:

Categories Photography > Photojournalism > People

©2006-2009 ~avotius
:iconavotius:

Artist's Comments

This family is moving. Their old house is being torn down to make way for new ones. The house this mans son was born in and spent the first few years of his life will soon be gone, but his parents lament not because for their house they are offered a new apartment or money as compensation. For some this is a great opportunity for them to live in a new house which for many “common” people is well out of their reach financially.

When I asked the man about his feelings moving to a new place he said he was very excited. He eagerly commented on his son will be able to grow up in a cleaner environment then the aging neighborhood next to the dirty Jia Ling River.

Canon 20D, Canon 17-40mm f/4 L Lens, 1/50 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400 [Extreme crop from original]

Comments


love 0 0 joy 0 0 wow 0 0 mad 0 0 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0
:iconfrikinshin:
~FrikinShin Jul 5, 2006, 12:09:18 PM
I hope they'll be happy in there new house (:
I love the picture
:iconmarianus:
~marianus Jul 5, 2006, 11:32:32 PM
In one way it is good that they even get the offer of new apartment or money. On the other side - I think it's a bit sad to see how the old buildings are torn down instead of fixing them. I still could cry about all the temples and old cultural buildings which are now covered with water from the new giant dam. Of course, they need the electricity - but why on the costs of civilists, history and culture?
Some decissions I'll never understand.
:icondavidmcb:
~davidmcb Jul 6, 2006, 5:30:48 AM
in these neighborhoods, the owners have often added several stories to single story buildings in order to have more space. we say this kind of construction is "buhaoxiu" it sort of means it is unrepairable. its nice to preserve the flavor in photography but the buildings are unsafe and structurally unsound

--
go here next: [link]
Three Represents: [link]
:iconmarianus:
~marianus Jul 6, 2006, 6:00:51 AM
ah, I see. So it is really better to torn them down to rebuild the safety. Hm, I guess the new buildings won't be designed in the "old" way but will be modern architecture. Here they sometimes build new houses, office buildings or hotels with an old fassade but are high modern inside. Nice compromiss to keep the historical sight of the city. :)
:icondavidmcb:
~davidmcb Jul 7, 2006, 4:33:36 PM
this city was thouroughly firebombed by the japanese so it doesn't have anything very old to preserve. at the same time developers in some places have been said by the locals to have removed desirable old districts. old meaning 50 years old. i think its the same all over the world really. its just everything is on a bigger scale. theres like 32 million people in chongqing and 17 million live in downtown...wow

--
go here next: [link]
Three Represents: [link]
:iconjessi-with-crunch:
~jessi-with-crunch Jul 7, 2006, 4:36:06 PM
that's awesome~ (that he's excited for his family that is) a fresh start is good sometimes. you really captured the mood in this picture. absolutely adoarble~

--
"Luckyyyy Boooobiiiieeees!"
:iconmarianus:
~marianus Jul 10, 2006, 6:30:22 AM
oh, o.k., now I understand. thank you. Oh my, 32 million people? I live in Berlin, capitol of Germany, and I thought it was crowded with nearly 4 million people. ^^;
:icondavidmcb:
~davidmcb Jul 10, 2006, 8:05:02 PM
嘿嘿，hehe... :whisper:[link]

--
go here next: [link]
Three Represents: [link]
:iconcottonball:
*cottonball Jul 11, 2006, 12:54:39 AM
Aww, wow.. we take so many things for granted. At first i was like, "Really? But i wouldn't want to leave the old house i lived in because of the memories".. but then if you look at it in that man's perspective, then it makes more sense.. uhh, but i don't know if i'm making any sense at all. @_@;;

Good stuff, man.

--
~c-ko d. de cottonball
aka ` tadako kazahaya.
Previous Page12Next Page

Details

July 5, 2006
269 KB
700×700

Statistics

11
11 [who?]
548 (0 today)

Site Map

©2009 deviantART. All rights reserved
About Us | Contact Us | Site Tour | Help & FAQ Advertise | Services Etiquette | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Copyright Policy