CHINA: ONCE IN BEIJING

August 2007:  an old house before demolishion....

August 2007 : Beijingers enjoy the evening outside

August 2007: an elderly man guards his house with a baseball bat in case  he is forcibly evicted  ( he had to move in in November)

February 2008 :  fireworks

September 2007 : an abandoned apartment that was demolished in November

August 2007 : a woman sits in her tiny one bedroom before it is demolished....

Beijing ,September 2007 : last hurah in a bar before it was demolished

Beijing ,August 2007 : an old building is dwarfted by the new CCTV construction

August 2007 : open-air movie theatre for construction workers after a projection...

September 2007 : an area that was home to a small neighbourhood some days after it had been bulldozed.

August 2007 : Mr X, a worker without a registration ( hukou) , spends the last days in his modest apartment before he decides to look for another refuge. ( his home was demolished later on )

August 2007 : modern buildings

August 2007 : a man sees his new neighbourhood growing  before his own home is demolished.