Posts tagged ‘harbin street photography’
Antithesis
Do you marry me ? (Main street / Courtyard, residential area)
Overpopulation… everywhere (rich and poor suburbs of Harbin)
Two by two (inside the Opera House of Harbin / outside frozen-chicken street-market)
Material matters (Harbin skyline from the roof of the Opera House / a night at the Opera!)
This post is part of the reportage Detour to China. Click each picture to enlarge.
United workers of the PRC
New tires, all sizes!
All the plastic boxes you need
Express courier? Maybe!
It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it
You trash I recycle
We are workers of Harbin, from the People Republic of China
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Life in plastic
At -20 °C each “aria di fessura” is “aria di sepoltura”, which in Italian means winds through a slit bring to the grave. Winter in Harbin often brings the temperature down to -20°C and below. Plastic foils and tape are therefore applied to doors, booths, windows, tut-tucs and wherever no slits are welcome.
Street restaurants wrapped for winter
One door is cold enough
Recycling shops in the suburbs
For a big plastic foil, you need a big tape
Winter ready tuc-tuc
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Sometimes … sticky sticks
Fruity sticks sold at every corner: your lips on a -20°C, frozen. pineapple slice …
A see-through, birch-tree forest in Harbin
Street lamps in the Opera House plaza
Sticks and flags in the mist on the frozen Songhua River
A line of skyscrapers in Harbin
The sun rises on New Harbin under construction
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Smoky days
Smoke and steam are part of daily life in Harbin. The poorest parts of the city are coal-heated. The sulfur, brown-coal smell permeates suburbs and clothes in windless mornings. Moving to the city center, high chimneys from centralized heating stations paint the sky with clouds. Along the street, boiling pots with sweet potatoes and food booths provide their share of steam for the day.
A ride through the coal-heated neighborhoods: one chimney one family
Steamed sweet potato , most popular street food in Harbin
Modern heating for modern neighborhoods
What’s boiling there?
An almost cloudless sky above the city canal
Smoky truck on the frozen highway
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China Red
Red is the lucky color in China. And it is the only way to fight back Nian, the mythological man-eater beasts living under mountains and seas. From red flags to red wedding dresses, the red color in China paints whatever brings luck and power. Including the rare and very expensive Arowana / dragon fishes, with their red, coin-shaped scales.
Asian Arowanas at the aquarium of Harbin Lindian Hot Spring
Ads with students of Harbin University
A touch of luck on the frozen streets of Harbin
Public reading of the party newspaper, Harbin
Bride and groom in front of Harbin Opera House, a wedding reportage shot at -25°C
Civil militia on the frozen Songhua River, Harbin
This post is part of the reportage Detour to China. Click each picture to enlarge.
