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Photographer Tim Fenby

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Tim Fenby

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Preston, Melbourne

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Wired.com are featuring my photo essay about Nanjiecun, the Chinese village where ‘“The East Is Red” crackles from loudspeakers, women dance with fans and school children march along quaint, wide streets.’

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/tim-fenby-china/

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Nanjie is China’s last Maoist village—a stubborn holdout against the growing capitalism of urban areas like Beijing and Shanghai. Colorful murals depicting Mao Zedong adorn its buildings and monuments to the likes of Joseph Stalin loom as you pass by. 

Photographer Tim Fenby heard about Nanjie while listening to the radio and grew intrigued by the idea of an operational commune in modern-day China. His dreamy, peaceful photographs offer a detached viewpoint of Nanjie, almost painting the village as a tiny Maoist theme park.

Check out more photos and read about Fenby’s project.

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Inside a greenhouse - in the last Maoist village - in China One person asked if they could take a photo of me, I said yes and then a whole group gathered round to take my photo.

Read more about this bizarre place in my photo essay here

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Passing the cigarette

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I’ve got a couple of prints showing at IPF tonight Sat 7th including this one I shot in a communist village in China. Come along to see some quality independent photography. Check out the detes here: http://i-p-f.co/