The Stranger

Contemporary China seems to have become the perfect mirror of the disorientation of the modern man and his discomfort in the face of rapid changes on the places of living. The look of Baldomero Fernandez, perfect and unrelenting, interprets the loss of the sense of belonging to its own place, by now distorted by its own inhabitants, to make it unrecognizable and creating populations of foreigners at home. The research by the New York-based photographer entitled “Waiguoren” (”foreigner”, in fact, in Chinese) returns urban depersonalization and scattered surrounding areas with no references or connections, in which tiny and disoriented human figures seem to move astonished or remain suspended and unable to get back what is around, or simply to belong to it. Meanwhile the inhuman flow of traffic through infrastructures and huge buildings mark the place and the time of a new unknown land.

Photo:

© Courtesy of Baldomero Fernandez

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