A group of Flickr members in Shanghai participated in a project to photograph the streets of Shanghai. From organizer Julien Ballet-Baz: “Streets of Shanghai is a photography project where people will share their vision of what Shanghai streets really are. Different photographers means different tastes, styles, colors, points of view, and this is what I want to discover and share with you through this project.” On with the show:
“If you take the risk to have a look behind this wall, it will lead you into a large void of grass and concrete blocks with only a handful of buildings left. The complete area seems somehow been stuck in time since it hasn’t changed a lot since my last visit in April 2010. The existing buildings are partly demolished – but still exist. The ones on my picture are even still populated! The people living here are known as “nail people” – not satified with the compensation offered by the government, so they are in a kind of power struggle with the authorities, which will step by step cut gas, water and electricity, but also is loosing time since it can not use this area as originally planned.”
Frank Fellenberg
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“Close to Nanjing West Road metro station. I was walking towards Nanjing West Road metro station from Shaanxi North Road and decided to take one of the smaller backstreets. One of the rare rains this winter and a lot of colorful umbrellas and ponchos. To me Shanghai streets are rainy streets. My first time here was in June/July and there was a lot of rain and scorching heat. People complain a lot about Shanghai winter. Even other people from Sweden. I can only say, if you do, you probably have stayed here too long.”
Daniel Hjort
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“Walking around at night. These buildings caught my eye. These small scale dwellings that seem to have grown organically against the back drop of well planed apartment high rises. I think it capture the breakneck speed which China is developing. Not everyone is moving in the same pace. With 600,000 new inhabitants each year the last 5 years Shanghai, along with other Chinese cities, face unprecedented challenges.”
Daniel Hjort
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“An old man is falling asleep while enjoying the warm February weather and something that’s even rarer: a silent moment on a Shanghai street. This photo was shot with my EOS 450d in one of the alleys around Zhongshan lu, near Bund.”
Mikolaj Rogowski
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“Tian zi fang is a good place to get different feeling in the sunny day. The old shanghainee live here generation by generation .Did the character there when it builded ?or it showed up with more and more vistor coming to visit here ,the resident feel that their life was bothered ? the local small citizen ‘s life get the attention from the visitors like always . I even want to know what they are talking about.some gossip ? it must be ..hehe ..”
Solei Lee
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“Shanghai is known for being Chinese economy spearhead. But behind the skyscrapers, some older and more authentic neighborhoods still exist and this is where I like to hang around. This photo has been taken with a chinese Seagull twin lens reflex film camera.”
Damien Polegato
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“Shanghai seldom snows and when it does, it always have rain in it. Thus the weather just becomes wet and cold. The Umbrella in the street just forms an interesting composition. This photo was taken under overhead. To fulfil the fast-vehicle traffic demand, the urban space for the people, are actually not so comfortable.”
Jingfeng Wu
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“We were waiting for someone I think or just walking around to kill time. I just love Shanghai – Stop, raise your camera, wait for the moment and push the button. There are always people, always characters, always something happening..”
Rasmus Jurkatam
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“It’s a shame, I forgot the name of this street… It was south of Huangpu district. I was walking around with a friend photographer, taking pictures under my 5 layers of clothes, my winter cap and gloves… Maybe around 3pm, we were looking for the great lights of the ending afternoon and some old areas where we could find Shikumen architecture. As I was walking, I saw these guys crossing the street, with these weird yellowish/green buildings in background and just shot. What I like on this picture is this ending street, with a feeling that these buildings are just here to stop you and look at them a bit.”
Julien Ballet-Baz
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“And yeah, what is a Shanghai’s street photo project without THE pedestrian street of the city? So here is Nanjing road, crowded 365/365 days per year, with its tourists shops, dvd vendors, etc etc. Taken at the end of the afternoon, with a nice lighting, just after (or maybe before) a good milk chocolate + blueberry muffin at Starbucks…”
Julien Ballet-Baz
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For more, visit the Streets of Shanghai group on Flickr. ✖
We have a flickr group??or is that something else?
It’s a group that Julien Ballet-Baz organized for this project.
cool ill go and post some photos over there…so whats up?you still in beijing?
That project has ended actually but I don’t know what they plan to do with the group. I believe the group members are all part of the Shanghai Flickr group (or whatever the name is).
I’m in Shanghai now.
Nice presentation of our pics:) Thanks!