Zhong Guo, a photo from Beijing, North

Photographer's Note

Zhong Guo (China)
Gate of Supreme Harmony (?), Imperial Palace Museum, Forbidden City, Beijing, China

May 26, 2007
12:12 pm CST

The search for truth in China (Zhong Guo) can be obscured by illusion. Is that really the Gate of Supreme Harmony behind the scrim? Or is it merely a visual representation of the building printed on the scrim?

Is China preserving the past or rewriting history? In the present, does one see what is really there? Does the future hold the renovations of history, or is China creating it's own, unique form of the future?

In 23 days I took about 2360 photos. I stored the images on a Wolverine 100 gig portable hard disk/card reader device, which worked very well.

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eslmatt (123) 2007-06-19 2:56

Hey Alan,

It is good to see that very little has changed in that scene since I was there a year ago. When you speak of China re-writing the past and obscuring the truth don't overlook the west. We have our own systems of doing this. I have been in China for a little over a year now, I have traveled from North to South. But what is the past? Ancient history or the revolution? My favorite was listening to the tour guide lie to the other when I went to see the great wall. "No we don't eat dog"

Well captured, the hint of blue in the sky either shows a good knowledge of your camera or luck in getting a blue sky. Also take a look at the TE gallery before you post too many over done pictures, don't focus on the tourist shots unless you have exceptional ones.

Matt