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21st Century China Portraits

 

Portraits from 21st century China: Photographer's magical album of ordinary people in fancy dress and posed in extraordinary settings   By Sara Malm PUBLISHED: 19:47 GMT, 31 March 2013 | UPDATED: 06:31 GMT, 1 April 2013   A Chinese artist spent nearly a year travelling around the country in a mobile studio in order to photograph thousands of ordinary people, and post them on a social network. Visiting 35 cities in 25 provinces, photographer Maleonn took 1,600 portraits of people dressed in outrageous fancy dress, surrounded by strange props of all shapes and sizes, before posting the snaps on the Chinese version of Twitter. Shanghai-based Maleonn spent seven months preparing for the ten-month project, including painting the sets and backgrounds, preparing costumes, producing the props, purchasing a truck and arranging location. Traveling circus: This bizarre photograph taken in Maleonn's mobile studio features people in horse heads, a suicidal clown and a giant bunny prop Moving art: Shanghai-based artist Maleonn spent much of last year traveling around 25 Chinese provinces, photographing thousands of people in a mobile photo studio High demands: After the unexpected response, Maleonn began imposing rules for his mobile studio visits, such as a minimum of eight people per city would have to be willing to model for him as provide him and his team with lodgings and food The images were posted on his Weibo account - China's own Twitter - and he was overwhelmed by the response. The project became so popular that he had to establish a set of guidelines, such as a minimum of eight people per city, who would provide him and his team with food, somewhere to stay and space to work. The idea of the mobile studio came after the artist lost his Shanghai studio, growing weary with the arts scene in the city. 'I became tired of contemporary art, the system, dealing with critics and curators behind closed doors. I wanted to do something with ordinary people,' Maleonn says. Having completed his travels around China, Maleonn spoke of the possibility of taking the mobile studio project to Britain, adding: 'I have friends in Swansea.' Big project: Maleonn spent seven months preparing for the journey around China, gathering props and costumes for his models, although some brought their own ideas to the table Flying high: Two women pose in pilot costumes and superhero capes while balancing on a toy plane in the mobile studio New experiences: Maleonns ten month journey came after grew tired of the world of contemporary art and wanted to involve ordinary people in his projects Online gallery: All the images taken during the mobile studio project were posted on Weibo - the Chinese version of Twitter Northern fields: A couple dressed in traditional Mongolian clothes as Maleonn kits out his mobile studio to resemble a home on the tundra Modern fighter: A man dresses up as a Samurai warrior complete with a sword and fearsome pose, but appears to have forgotten to change out of his torn jeans Understated madness: While some of Maleonn's models went all out with the fancy dress, others chose a more sombre appearance and added a goat Master of the arts: Maleonn's models were kitted out with everything from superhero costumes to traditional warrior outfits and props which appear to have fallen out of a Lewis Carroll novel Have a great day_ ! Best Regards,  Murli gupta   Should you have any questions or concerns about one of my messages, please simply DELETE   To unsubscribe from my mailing list due to any reason please do feel free to inform by sending Just a  Mail to me saying Unsubscribe .         I just share to all friends which share as received from my contacts. When I forward emails, I delete the email addresses of the persons who had sent them to me, as well as the email addresses of all the previous senders.  Can you do the same please to this email, if you are going to forward it to somebody else?   Please always use the Bcc: field, to feed in the email address/(es) of the recipient/(s), in your outgoing emails.  Thank you in advance, for your utmost co-operation.

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