Maleonn's mobile photo studio - in pictures
Shanghai-based artist Maleonn has travelled around 25 Chinese provinces, photographing 200,000 people in a mobile photo studio
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Shanghai-based artist Maleonn (aka Ma Liang) has travelled around 25 Chinese provinces, photographing 200,000 people in a mobile photo studio and posting the images on his Weibo account
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It took seven months to prepare for the project including painting the sets and backgrounds, preparing costumes, producing the props, purchasing a truck and arranging locations
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Over 10 months, in a battered truck and a minivan, he visited 35 cities in China, taking 1,600 portraits of people in fancy/fantasy dress
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He established 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 a space to work
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The subjects dressed either in clothes from Maleonn’s van or brought their own outfits
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Subjects ranged from tank drivers and police officers to Tang dynasty scholars
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Maleonn launched the project after losing his studio in Shanghai’s Weihai Road 696 arts community, following a government eviction of artists, and getting divorced
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Having completed the huge project in China, Maleonn suggested he might next be taking the roadshow to the UK. 'I have friends in Swansea,' he said
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People from all walks of life turned up to be photographed
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Maleonn collects old photographs, papers including posters, certificates, letters, receipts and notebooks
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Maleonn's studio mobile (75)
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Maleonn's studio mobile (39)
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