Photo series on hutong demolition finished

We went out the last week of April to a chain of old neighborhoods east of Qianmen that are scheduled for demolition. Some of the homes are just common homes; some of them were the residence of relatives of Qing Dynasty nobles; all of them are coming down.

It took several days to pick through the 4GB of shots, clean them up and get them up on deviantART, but I finished the effort on Monday. I am pretty happy with the series, an it is the first time I have primarily photographed city life, and also the first time I have done so much free-hand work with my new Nikon.

Thumbnails of the series follow the jump. For full resolution photos, check the gallery on Flickr.

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