The Many Lives Along the Yangtze River – The New Yorker

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The Many Lives Along the Yangtze River

There are four hundred and fifty million people living in the watershed of the Yangtze, and nearly as many ways to interface with the river.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-many-lives-along-the-yangtze-river

In 2012, Mustafah Abdulaziz, a twenty-six-year-old originally from Bedford-Stuyvesant, who was largely self-educated in photography, and who carried a medium-format Japanese film camera called the Mamiya 7, set out to take pictures of water. He figured that this would take at least a decade