Workers break away bricks and concrete to find rebar and other metals for salvage in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Photo © M. Scott Brauer All Rights Reserved
China: Demolition Economy
"The converse of China’s rapid construction and development is a huge, patchwork demolition economy. In order to make room for the high-rises and hypermarkets, the country’s narrow residential alleyways (hutongs) and other fixtures of Old China need to be razed and repurposed. The old buildings are marked, and then come the heavy machines and scavengers with mallets and blowtorches."
"The residents of these old houses are given money, but often it’s not enough." Brauer continues. "The only affordable housing to be found after a forced move like this is often well outside the city and far from any jobs or shops"
Photojournalist M. Scott Brauer, visited some demolition crews as well as former residents of the buildings they dismantled to visually compose his photo essay China: Demolition Economy, now appearing on Gaia Photos, a new international photography source comprised of 41 photojournalists from around the world whose mission is to promote quality and diversity in documentary photography.
M. Scott Brauer was born to American parents in 1982 in Landstuhl, Germany. After graduating from the University of Washington in 2005 with honors and dual degrees in philosophy and Russian literature and language, he interned at Black Star and VII photo agencies in New York.
In 2006 - 2007 Mr. Brauer worked for the Northwest Herald in suburban Chicago and the Flint Journal in Flint, Michigan.
His photography has been published internationally and exhibited in London, Kosovo, and Washington, D.C.
He is represented by Invision Images in Europe and Wonderful Machine in the USA. M. Scott Brauer is currently based in Nanjing, China and is available for assignments.
Please Visit Us and visit M. Scott Brauer's website.
You can also search for assignment photographers at Gaia Photos, a place to explore and discover the issues facing the diverse population and locations of our world, both near and far.
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Photo © M. Scott Brauer All Rights Reserved
China: Demolition Economy
"The converse of China’s rapid construction and development is a huge, patchwork demolition economy. In order to make room for the high-rises and hypermarkets, the country’s narrow residential alleyways (hutongs) and other fixtures of Old China need to be razed and repurposed. The old buildings are marked, and then come the heavy machines and scavengers with mallets and blowtorches."
"The residents of these old houses are given money, but often it’s not enough." Brauer continues. "The only affordable housing to be found after a forced move like this is often well outside the city and far from any jobs or shops"
Photojournalist M. Scott Brauer, visited some demolition crews as well as former residents of the buildings they dismantled to visually compose his photo essay China: Demolition Economy, now appearing on Gaia Photos, a new international photography source comprised of 41 photojournalists from around the world whose mission is to promote quality and diversity in documentary photography.
M. Scott Brauer was born to American parents in 1982 in Landstuhl, Germany. After graduating from the University of Washington in 2005 with honors and dual degrees in philosophy and Russian literature and language, he interned at Black Star and VII photo agencies in New York.
In 2006 - 2007 Mr. Brauer worked for the Northwest Herald in suburban Chicago and the Flint Journal in Flint, Michigan.
His photography has been published internationally and exhibited in London, Kosovo, and Washington, D.C.
He is represented by Invision Images in Europe and Wonderful Machine in the USA. M. Scott Brauer is currently based in Nanjing, China and is available for assignments.
Please Visit Us and visit M. Scott Brauer's website.
You can also search for assignment photographers at Gaia Photos, a place to explore and discover the issues facing the diverse population and locations of our world, both near and far.
Please subscribe to our new features page to keep track of new stories too!
John Brown Photojournalist On LIGHTSTALKERS
My Mondo Library Photography
My Photoshelter Photography Archive Homepage
GAIA Photography and Photojournalism
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