After an earthquake in Sichuan in 2008, Jin Peng went there, to his home country, to photograph the destruction. Instead of photographing the chaos and rescue efforts, he captures the silence of the ruins in a very beautiful way. Some photos show destroyed buildings and rubble, but others include statues and wall art, portraying a sense of beauty and hope in overcoming the destruction. My favorite image is of a brick building with a giant crack in it. The photo is a close up showing only one section of the building. There are sculpted leaves on the building and other artistic elements which show the beauty of the building winning out over the crack of destruction. Another image shows a bridge that has fallen in half and has water flowing over it in the center. It looks strangely natural, as if the scene was a piece of artwork in and of itself, not something that had been destroyed.
Source: Black & White Magazine, Issue 71, December 2009
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