NYAB Event - Benjamin Collier "Building Beijing 2008"

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ATM Gallery presents Building Beijing 2008, an exhibition of color photographs by Benjamin Collier.

Timed to coincide with the 2008 summer Olympics, Building Beijing 2008 documents the construction of the Olympic Village and surrounding sites through the eyes of the many thousands of migrant workers who have silently shaped the city’s intensely mutable landscape into a vision of gleaming modernity.

Collier’s photographs offer a rare glimpse into the lives of these workers, capturing the routine of their existence in a spare, evocative style that feels unsettlingly intimate. Images of dormitory rooms and work sites are shown alongside rows of close-cropped portraiture, imbuing both with a profound sense of immediacy. As such, everyday objects like workers bike racks and empty stadium seats take on new meaning when seen in this context. Overall, Collier’s photographs tell a story larger than their individual subjects- that of a city, a country, and a culture in transition, waiting to be revealed to the world.

Half of all profits from the show will support Wokai, a pioneering Chinese Microfinance Nonprofit.

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