Kuang Huimin
Townsman in Mao Zedong's hometown (original dummy)

Photographs: Kuang Huimin

16 pages

Pictures: 17

Comments: Red hardcover, 70 x 95 mm. Original contact prints. Probably unique copy, in very good condition.

sold

Winner of World Press Photo Award 2014 Kuang Huimin made this tiny red photobook by appropriating Mao’s little red book and the his figure as well, taking pictures of residents in Mao Zedong's hometown. In 2011, Kuang’s project Mao Zedong’s Hometown was selected to be shown at the Toronto Chinese Photo Festival, in Canada, and he was granted a Mid-career Photographer Award, under the National Geographic All Roads Photography program.

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