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It hasn’t even been a month since Chinese president Xi Jinping was in South Africa for the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) confab where he unveiled a massive $60 billion financial package. Oh how those were innocent, halcyon days. There was still a prevailing sense of optimism that everything would be O.K.
In just a few short weeks, so much has changed.
Davide Monteleone is an artist and storyteller who uses photography and video as main forms of expression. In 2001, he moved to Moscow as a correspondent for the Italian agency Contrasto and since 2003 he has lived between Italy and Russia pursuing long-term independent projects. He has devoted himself to the study of social issues, conflict, and relations between power and the individual. Known for his specific interest in the post-soviet area, he published his first book, Dusha—Russian Soul, in 2007, followed by La Linea Inesistente in 2009, Red Thistle in 2012, and Spasibo in 2013. His projects have brought him numerous awards, including several World Press Photo prizes, and grants such as the Aftermath Grant, European Publishers Award, and Carmignac Photojournalism Award. He regularly contributes to leading publications internationally. His photography projects have been presented as installations, exhibitions, and screenings at festivals and galleries worldwide, including the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Saatchi Gallery in London, MEP in Paris, and Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. He is engaged with educational activities, regularly lecturing at universities and teaching workshops internationally. Monteleone is a member of VII Photo and is represented by Kehrer Gallery in Berlin.
It takes a brave man to jump off a moving train for the sake of a sale, but the clothes hawkers had the easy courage of men who did this on the regular. I watched as they leapt off the front carriage as the train chugged into a station with no stop, bundles of cheap Chinese jeans and jackets on their arms, exchanged hurried words and cash with waiting Russians, and jumped back on the last carriage as the Trans-Siberian trundled steadily toward Moscow from Ulaanbaatar.
Across the frozen Ussuri River that marked the boundary between China and Russia, two armies stared each other down. Soon they would clash, as they did almost every week, on the ice. The Chinese swung halberds and hooks; the Russians advanced like medieval knights with great spears, while others stood by to knock down with maces any Chinese warrior brave or lucky enough to make it through.
On January 16, the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will meet in Beijing to formally launch its operations.
