Transcript Industrial China

Industrial China
Zhou Hai - photographer
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Zhou Hai, photographer of "The Unbearable
Heaviness of Industry," a touring exhibition that
depicts the gritty industrial side of China.
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A worker dangles precariously in a cloud of
smoke, the factory grounds just visible
hundreds of feet below.
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Black-faced coal miners, their eyes
small points of white, resemble
deer caught in a headlight.
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A steel worker's dignity seems to emerge
right through the crude mask and goggles
he must wear in the fiery, poisonous mill.
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Workers whose tiredness is
palpable eat lunch from plastic
cartons, take a smoke or just rest.
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Factory workers in Beijing, 1997.
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