19.02.2015 - The Streets of China Commodity City
Yiwu International Trade City, also known as China Commodity City, claims to be the world’s largest wholesale market for small commodities. It is located in a vast warehouse in the province of Zhejiang, where tens of thousands of stalls sell everything from artificial flowers to inflatable pools. In 2014, the photographer Richard John Seymour captured the “streets” of China Commodity City as part of a project with the design studio Unknown Fields Division. Seymour told me that, despite the disorienting aspects of the market, the familiarity of certain items on sale there—a kitchen sponge, a Christmas decoration—served as a reminder that he “had an intimate connection with this place on the other side of the globe.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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