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Shanghai Street Scenes

Shanghai Photos 2004 & 2005: These photographs represent a record of parts of Shanghai fast disappearing. By EXPO 2010, all traces of this way of life will be wiped away. That is progress, but this is history....

My other galleries contain many more recent images of shanghai, but along more specific themes. Please visit them and I hope you enjoy....
Boys on swing, Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Boys on swing, Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004		 Cardgame Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Cardgame Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004		 Steaming Dumplings, Jian He Lu, Shanghai 2004
Steaming Dumplings, Jian He Lu, Shanghai 2004		 Mechanic Shop & Home, Shanghai 2005
Mechanic Shop & Home, Shanghai 2005		 Playing in the backyard, Shanghai 2005
Playing in the backyard, Shanghai 2005
Chef on a break, Jian He Lu, Shanghai 2005
Chef on a break, Jian He Lu, Shanghai 2005		 Dumplings for Sale, Shanghai 2005
Dumplings for Sale, Shanghai 2005		 Graphic Tricycles, Shanghai 2005
Graphic Tricycles, Shanghai 2005		 Bike Repair, Off Yan'an Lu, Shanghai 2005
Bike Repair, Off Yan'an Lu, Shanghai 2005		 Balanced Youth, Off Yan'an Lu, Shanghai 2005
Balanced Youth, Off Yan'an Lu, Shanghai 2005
Framed! Jin Hui Lu, Shanghai 2005
Framed! Jin Hui Lu, Shanghai 2005		 Waiting for work, Jinhui Lu, Shanghai 2005
Waiting for work, Jinhui Lu, Shanghai 2005		 Family transport, shanghai 2005
Family transport, shanghai 2005		 Guarding the Marriot, Hongqiao, Shanghai 2005
Guarding the Marriot, Hongqiao, Shanghai 2005		 Kids at play, Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Kids at play, Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Noodleman, Shanghai 2004
Noodleman, Shanghai 2004		 Oldlady, Off Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Oldlady, Off Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004		 No Shoes inside! Shanghai 2004
No Shoes inside! Shanghai 2004		 Excercise at the Bund, Shanghai 2004
Excercise at the Bund, Shanghai 2004		 Poulterer, Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Poulterer, Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Sweet family, Off Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Sweet family, Off Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004		 Tired, Off Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Tired, Off Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004		 Shanghai window, Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004
Shanghai window, Dongjiadu, Shanghai 2004		 vegetable Seller, Shanghai
vegetable Seller, Shanghai

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cReationwater 17-Jul-2006 03:57
Great, can feel that the people have their own character...like to talk with me....
Guest 07-Jul-2006 15:51
Its a stunner of a gallery. Depicts the people of sanghai so well.
Guest 10-Jun-2006 00:40
bellissime shot!
Richard Calmes01-Dec-2005 11:53
An Excellent gallery! Images carry a lot of feeling! They involve me!
andrew1812 24-Oct-2005 08:40
kal, i much agree with your view on showing these pictures as a record of fading history. i especially like the way you capture the human side of the story rather than for example an empty building or autumn leafs. good work and keep it on. you do have an audience.
Kal Khogali20-Oct-2005 14:58
Thank you Jon. I feel that community is what will be lost as the price of progress. So I understand where you are coming from. I wonder, how many people will smile if I took their picure 20 years from now? By the way, this is an old gallery. A large portion of the images in my other galleries have been taken in Shanghai. So please visit them, I hope you will find great images there too...Thanks. Kal
Jon 20-Oct-2005 00:35
First off, great pics! I think it would be a shame that places like the ones shown in these photos will be wiped out in the name of "progress". If all of Shanghai is new glass, steel and concrete high rise what will make it different from any other metropolis in the world? You can go to any developed city in the world to see skyscrapers and high rise buildings. These photos portray a unique and wonderful streetscape and lifestyle.
Guest 10-Aug-2005 22:25
Great work!
Guest 31-Jul-2005 12:37
What an interesting and wonderful gallery!
Kal Khogali28-Jul-2005 23:16
Agree yaypan! Not all images were taken in Dongjiadu, but many of them. There are many more places in Shanghai like this. The purpose of the gallery was to be a record of these disappearing areas of shanghai, not shanghai as a tourist might see it. there are plenty of people who are doing that. Many Shanghainese (and I have many friends here) don't like these images, because they don't represent what they want Shanghai to be seen as. I agree with them, progress is progress, I am not suggesting either that this is Shanghai in total, or that it is what Shanghai should look like. In 10 to 20 years someone will be interested in this this record, and at present I am really enjoying discovering these parts of Shanghai.
yayapan 28-Jul-2005 21:40
Except that it's not exactly Shanghai life.It's a life at Dong Jia Du.
Wolfgang06-Jul-2005 19:39
You capture the feeling of Shanghai life well, teeming with activity as always. It's the essence of any alley, anywhere, any time. Young and old, working and resting, changing and not. Let's go get a bowl of noodles ;-)
Phil Douglis10-May-2005 06:33
Al of these images are rich in human values. It is incongruity and abstraction that will make them stronger and allow the viewer's imagination to work.
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