David Butow
Photographing China
David Burtow shows images that illuminate contrasting groups in China, raising questions of what values their society will cling to, discard and adopt during the country’s emergence as a world power.
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California-based photojournalist David Butow first visited China in 1986 and has since returned a dozen times, developing a fascination with the rapid modernization and the resulting changes in society. His photographs have captured a variety of subjects ranging from traditional village life to glitzy urban nightclubs, as well as Chinese society’s response to…
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POYi2010 features very best documentary photography of 2009 from winning photojournalists and visual editors in Pictures of the Year International (POYi).
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Exhibit
2010 Pictures of the Year International
POYi2010 features very best documentary photography of 2009 from winning photojournalists and visual editors in Pictures of the Year International (POYi).
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Photographer
David Butow
California-based photojournalist David Butow first visited China in 1986 and has since returned a dozen times, developing a fascination with the rapid modernization and the resulting changes in society.