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Symbiosis of working and living
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Chinas cities are growing very fast, new high buildings are replacing old small areas and create space for the growing population. Many people see their chance in the bigger cities and moving from the rural areas. Space become more and more rare, for small old traditional buildings are no space left. China is transforming with positiv and negativ consequences, people get the chance to move in new build homes with modern water supply and modern sanitary facilities, but also loose their traditional way of living. Many people still fight for habitat conservation of homes where they were born, worked the hole live, raised and now raising the next generation, but mostly, after the space of this ares are sold, people are regardless relocated by the government. China still have some old small buildings and areas left where people still live and try to survive in this new built concrete jungle. Some of the areas are protected to safe the traditions of china and some are disappearing soon.
My work is concentrate of exploring and showing this small areas and buildings which are left in the big cities, where families still living and working in one space. It emerge a beautiful symbiosis from people working and living in their available space. Soon most of them will be gone, most of them will live like other chinese in high build homes anonym behind walls.
This is my personal fascination of people in china, the way they try to survive without loosing important prenciple of family traditions.
My name is Alina Fedorenko and I am a emerging photographer. If you are new to this business and try to get your work out there, you are thankful for oppurtunies like contests to be recognized in your first steps. What you don´t know in the beginning that more than half of the contests are bringing you nowhere, no exposure, not even on google your name rise or your story get visible. These contests try not to push their chosen ones, only thing what you end up is a great first place in some category which means nothing. To learn that, you have to go through all these before you realize what is behind all that game.
The moment when you receive for the first time an 1 place at some contest is fulfilled with joy and you are so happy that your work is getting recognized finally, but than after few of them you realize that nothing happens you start to get sad and you doubt the industry. Photography is my Love, Photography is something what fulfill me in every corner of my body, mind and soul, Photography is something that I can use to tell stories about people who will never have a chance to race their voice, Photography is my weapon to case a change, to make life on this earth better. Everything I had I invested in this dream, I took my child on my back to get my work done, to produce series and photography. I´m not a hobby photographer, my life is photography and I´m more than sad to read the news about the fake contests around there, who uses dreams to make their lives better, live in bigger houses and buy even bigger cars, while the
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Chinas cities are growing very fast, new high buildings are replacing old small areas and create space for the growing population. Many people see their chance in the bigger cities and moving from the rural areas. Space become more and more rare, for small old traditional buildings are no space left. China is transforming with positiv and negativ consequences, people get the chance to move in new build homes with modern water supply and modern sanitary facilities, but also loose their traditional way of living. Many people still fight for habitat conservation of homes where they were born, worked the hole live, raised and now raising the next generation, but mostly, after the space of this ares are sold, people are regardless relocated by the government. China still have some old small buildings and areas left where people still live and try to survive in this new built concrete jungle. Some of the areas are protected to safe the traditions of china and some are disappearing soon.
My work is concentrate of exploring and showing this small areas and buildings which are left in the big cities, where families still living and working in one space. It emerge a beautiful symbiosis from people working and living in their available space. Soon most of them will be gone, most of them will live like other chinese in high build homes anonym behind walls.
This is my personal fascination of people in china, the way they try to survive without loosing important prenciple of family traditions.
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Dear International Photographer of the Year Contest,My name is Alina Fedorenko and I am a emerging photographer. If you are new to this business and try to get your work out there, you are thankful for oppurtunies like contests to be recognized in your first steps. What you don´t know in the beginning that more than half of the contests are bringing you nowhere, no exposure, not even on google your name rise or your story get visible. These contests try not to push their chosen ones, only thing what you end up is a great first place in some category which means nothing. To learn that, you have to go through all these before you realize what is behind all that game.
The moment when you receive for the first time an 1 place at some contest is fulfilled with joy and you are so happy that your work is getting recognized finally, but than after few of them you realize that nothing happens you start to get sad and you doubt the industry. Photography is my Love, Photography is something what fulfill me in every corner of my body, mind and soul, Photography is something that I can use to tell stories about people who will never have a chance to race their voice, Photography is my weapon to case a change, to make life on this earth better. Everything I had I invested in this dream, I took my child on my back to get my work done, to produce series and photography. I´m not a hobby photographer, my life is photography and I´m more than sad to read the news about the fake contests around there, who uses dreams to make their lives better, live in bigger houses and buy even bigger cars, while the
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