Rian Dundon “Changsha”
CHANGSHA:
“Dundon’s subject is provincial China, far from the glittering and more familiar scenes of Beijing, Shanghai, and other coastal cities. The world he makes visible is neither the mainline east coast success story, nor the rural left-behind story, nor even the hidden-scenic-China story. It is something else altogether—people in marginal but not isolated places, aware of a world beyond their experience but reworking and inventing local versions of it according to their own imaginations and desires, constrained by material difficulties but in no way intimidated by their status as citizens of a purported backwater.” –Gail Hershatter
Rian Dundon is a photographer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Changsha (Emphasis) and Fan (Modes Vu), and is a partner photographer at the Keystone picture agency. Rian’s work has appeared in Mother Jones, The New York Times, Boom: A Journal of California, The California Sunday Magazine, and Newsweek, among other publications. A former contributor to New America Media, Rian previously served as an editor at Timeline and Raw View Magazine. In 2019 he is a contributing editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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