The roots of the economic miracle, the elemental mix of earth and sweat and smoke. Evan Osnos, China Correspondent for the New Yorker.

27 May - 2 July 2011

Ian Teh explores the industrial hinterlands of China’s far flung and impoverished provinces with unflinching precision and subtle intensity. From industrialization to pollution, these photographic works present the landscape as a repository for humanity’s endeavors, somehow a source of memory and a silent testament to our material desires. In the world’s most populous country Teh has made landscape pictures with close to no people in sight, letting the terrain speak for itself.

Flowers Gallery/IAN TEH/TRACES/ General Release