Earlier this month, photographer Tim Franco visited Asia Society to show his work from Chongqing, a city of more than 25 million where he has been reporting since 2009. Many of the images Franco showed appear in his latest book, Metamorpolis (Pendant Ce Temps, 2015), a culmination of his years photographing the people, landscape, and explosive construction of Chongqing. Some of Franco’s images were commissioned by ChinaFile and first appeared on the site in “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Urban Farmers in Chongqing.” David Barreda, ChinaFile’s Visuals Editor, led a Q&A after the presentation.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
It’s a feature of the landscape one sees throughout China. On the sides of roads, at the edges of construction sites, on the steep banks of rivers, and in pastures that wrap around the fat pylons of future highways, Chinese people are farming,...