The Farmers Who Carve Frozen Rivers for the Harbin Ice Festival | Sixth Tone
Wu Huiyuan—Sixth Tone
The northeastern city of Harbin is renowned for the fanciful and gigantic structures it builds for its annual winter ice festival. Before the exhibit opened this year, Sixth Tone photographers Shi Yangkun and Wu Huiyuan documented the group of middle-aged men who work mostly as farmers in the summer, as they rose at 4:00 a.m. in freezing temperatures to cut huge blocks of ice from the Songhua River for the exhibit’s sculptors.
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The northeastern city of Harbin is renowned for the fanciful and gigantic structures it builds for its annual winter ice festival. Before the exhibit opened this year, Sixth Tone photographers Shi Yangkun and Wu Huiyuan documented the group of middle-aged men who work mostly as farmers in the summer, as they rose at 4:00 a.m. in freezing temperatures to cut huge blocks of ice from the Songhua River for the exhibit’s sculptors.