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Ann Romero de Córdoba

Primary

  • Photography
    • Twelve After Nine (The Motherhood Project, Part I)
    • The Feeling’s Forever
    • Countryside Portraits
    • Earth Reverie
    • Lao He, Thirty Days
  • Handmade Paper
    • Bodies and Forms
    • Magazine Work
  • Teaching
    • Current
  • Bio
  • Recent Exhibitions
  • Contact
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Between 2006 and 2008, I spent time making photographs in a small village area near the city of Chongqing. Like much of the rest of rural China, the area is undergoing rapid change, as many of the area’s residents between 18 and 40 have left to work in China’s southern factory towns.

In my visits to these villages, I became interested in the people that were left—the children, the middle-aged,  and the old. Both the land and the people seemed dependent on one another, and in images, captive to a web of myth and story larger than themselves. I developed personal relationships particularly with a few children, for whom the earth is still wild and alive. At the same time, I became interested in the older people’s complicated relationship with the earth as a symbol of work and livelihood, age, healing, and decay.

The accompanying book for this project consists of 50 photographs, made possible with a grant from Carrie Gordon Fellowship from Princeton-in-Asia.

  • Pig Ghost and Farmer

  • Wedding Sheet

  • Walking the Plank

  • Secrets

  • Bamboo

  • Tree Queen

  • Umbrella

    Digital c-print

  • Smoke and Baby

  • Afternoon Squash

  • Two Boys in a Tree

  • Tree Sleep

  • Spring Patio

  • Dead Pigeon

  • Beside an Abandoned House

  • The Invitation

  • Two Old Men

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