Yan Wang Preston

Forest

Zelda Cheatle, Nadine Barth, Nadine Barth

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English

Hatje Cantz
25 May 2018

Individual photographers; Photographic reportage

Planting trees, you put down roots. And what about those who dig them up? In 2013, during a long-term photography project along the Yangtze river, Yan Wang Preston (
*1976) made an incisive observation: in the small village of Xialiu stood an over three-hundred-year-old tree in all of its glory, right in the center of a community that was, at the time of Yan's visit, being coerced into moving so that a dam could be built in that location. Three months later, no trace of the village or the tree could be seen. The residents had moved up the mountain. And the seventy-ton tree? It was sold for ten thousand American dollars to a hotel in the nearest large city, Binchuan. Yan found the tree, divested of all its branches and leaves and bandaged in plastic, inside the skeleton of the hotel, which was still under construction-like a living sculpture that has yet to become cognizant of its new surroundings. In China, the country where cities are springing up, transplanting nature is big business. In the photo series Forest Preston tracks down many uprooted creatures that are now in concrete deserts, once again questioning our sense of the meaning of homeland.

Yan Wang Preston is the winner of the Syngenta Photography Award.

Text by: Zelda Cheatle, Nadine Barth
Edited by: Nadine Barth
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 300mm,
Weight: 1.050kg
ISBN: 9783775743754
ISBN 10: 3775743758
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 25 May 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Yan Wang Preston: Forest

Preston treats these trees like individuals, in turn drawing a connection to the human movement of millions into these cities, people who are similarly uprooted from their longtime homes.--Allison C. Meier Hyperallergic