shashasha

The city as a place of constant change, where familiarity and strangeness intersect and form strange bonds. The dreamlike surreality of countless lives, experiences, systems and values that overlap and coexist in constant flux. Ruishen Hong’s gentle photobook “0123416” about his hometown Shanghai captures personal absurdities and shared realities, up close and zoomed out, in an evocative and varied series in which soap bubbles and plastic zebras follow unmade beds and rain drying on asphalt, and completely blurred flowers dissolve into the clinical beauty of concrete and glass.