GraemeNicol
TRADE WINDS: Guangzhou's African Community
Xiaobei, Guangzhou, Oct 2008
Kiev-60, Biometar 80mm, Provia 400
Two year-old Huang Long has an African name too, but his mother, 30 year old Huang Aiping from Guangxi, isn't sure how to spell it. His father would know but he's back in Sierra Leone on business. She says his Chinese is really good, much better than her English. They've been married for four years.
Huang Long will grow up around her store in the multi-lingual environment of the foreign trade malls, in contact with both his African and Chinese roots.
黄龙（2岁）也有非洲名字，但是他妈妈（黄爱萍，30岁，广西） 不知道怎么写。黄龙的爸爸当然知道但是他在非洲(塞阿里昂)出差着。黄爱萍说她落魄的中文非常好，一定比她的英文好。它们结婚四年了。黄龙要在他妈妈的商店附近长大了，在多语种环境里，和保持联系都中国也非洲文化。
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The full project can be viewed as an e-book on my website here
The documentary has been used editorially in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, and published as a five-page photo essay in the Guangzhou newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily 南方都城日, available online here, in Chinese. epaper.nddaily.com/C/html/2009-05/23/node_929.htm
Several photos from the project were also exhibited at the 2009 Pingyao International Photography Festival, and also at Dali Photo Festival, both in China.
TRADE WINDS: Guangzhou's African Community
Xiaobei, Guangzhou, Oct 2008
Kiev-60, Biometar 80mm, Provia 400
Two year-old Huang Long has an African name too, but his mother, 30 year old Huang Aiping from Guangxi, isn't sure how to spell it. His father would know but he's back in Sierra Leone on business. She says his Chinese is really good, much better than her English. They've been married for four years.
Huang Long will grow up around her store in the multi-lingual environment of the foreign trade malls, in contact with both his African and Chinese roots.
黄龙（2岁）也有非洲名字，但是他妈妈（黄爱萍，30岁，广西） 不知道怎么写。黄龙的爸爸当然知道但是他在非洲(塞阿里昂)出差着。黄爱萍说她落魄的中文非常好，一定比她的英文好。它们结婚四年了。黄龙要在他妈妈的商店附近长大了，在多语种环境里，和保持联系都中国也非洲文化。
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The full project can be viewed as an e-book on my website here
The documentary has been used editorially in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, and published as a five-page photo essay in the Guangzhou newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily 南方都城日, available online here, in Chinese. epaper.nddaily.com/C/html/2009-05/23/node_929.htm
Several photos from the project were also exhibited at the 2009 Pingyao International Photography Festival, and also at Dali Photo Festival, both in China.