Empty Bottles (FIRST SIGNED EDT)

WassinkLundgren
Empty Bottles (FIRST SIGNED EDT)

Photographs: WassinkLundgren

Text: Hans Moleman & Floris-Jan van Luyn

Publisher: Veenman Publishers

64 pages

Year: 2007

Comments: Thread-bound softcover.315 x 240 mm. First edition, first printing 2007. Best contemporary Photobook 2007 at the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival. Limited edition of 2000 copies. Copy signed by WassinLundgren. Including in the history of Photobook from Martin Parr and Gerry Badger.

This is work in its most basic sense : a means of survival. China offers only a rudimentary package of social services ; millions have to devise their own way of keeping their head above water, even in China's economic miracle. But it's not really about the deprivation. Many of the scavengers are far from pathetic. These are people with an aim, an objective in perfect harmony with the highly affluent society in which they scavenge for a living.

Fragment of "The Land of Boundless Ambition" by Hans Moleman.