Silvermine

<p> It has been 3 years that Thomas Sauvin, a french photo curator based in Beijing, is collecting photo negatives from ordinary people in China. He founds this negatives in a huge dump near the capital. He has already collected a half million of pictures. </p> <p> Most of them were taken from 1985 to 2005 : from the first mainstream Kodak camera in 1985 - to the rise of digital and the end of film around 2005.... It is a treasure made from memories of random people. The pictures tell a lot about all the huge changes that China went through this last two decades. They show a new China, the China of luna parcs, the China of consumption, the China of economic growth.</p> <p> Thomas collects all these photos in order to show them in exhibitions all around the world. Martin Parr, the well-known photographer, and also a photo collector, supports the project.</p> <p>  </p>