The scenery of Shanghai is a project to be filmed in 2020, mainly to record the large-scale building expansion brought about by the rapid urbanization of Shanghai.

The wasteland, as well as the buildings to be demolished or under construction, involve the inner and outer middle ring of Shanghai. At the same time, it is still recording the man-made scenery of Shanghai and the young people who are migrant workers. For me, the identity problem of migrant workers also exists. Regarding how to define the identities of ordinary foreign individuals in big cities in China, at the end of 2020, I began to integrate my body into buildings with different attributes, and have a relationship with the architectural space in the way of selfies, and have the concepts of temporary rooms and temporary identities. . It enables me to explore the relationship between people and architecture and the environment more deeply. At the same time, I will continue to pay attention to the current situation of Chinese urban architectural space, social issues, environment and population flow. Continuously record the Chinese landscape of the current era.

Leslie Shang Zhefeng (b. 1991, Baoji, Shaanxi, China) lives and works in Shanghai-Xi'an.

He has been paying attention to Chinese social issues, the relationship between man and architecture, cities, population mobility, natural environment and ecology. He is also interested on the study of self-identity and families histories.

Self-published documentary photography was reported by The Paper. In 2020, the long-term project Shanghai Scenery and the hometown project of the same name about the family origin history Cypress Slope will be filmed. The latest series of My Time is a metaphor for the current situation in China.

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