“Going Home,” Muge’s Journey Along the Yangtze River

—

by

Trent
in

Daylight Photo Awards: Muge’s “Going Home”

Earlier this month, I served as a juror for the annual Daylight Photo Awards, which, along with a winner—Aaron Vincent Elkaim, for his body of work …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/08/daylight-photo-awards-mu-ge-going-home.html#slide_ss_0=1

The Three Gorges Project looms large over “Going Home.” As I told Daylight, Muge’s images have an almost dreamlike quality, but through his nostalgia you can see the immensity of the transformation, displacement, and disappearance along his route