Our Own Little World, The Bund, Shanghai, China, 2005
I see the umbrellas as their protection. In a big city like Shanghai, people carefully protect themselves by keeping their distance from others. In doing so, they create their own little world.
Three persons sitting on two chairs and protected from the rain by two umbrellas. A picture composed in three steps. Behind the chain, in front of the chain and above the city. Very clean !!! Yet the person behind them all is the one who created this little universe and gave it this meaning through her words and point of view. Others might just see anyhting else... and that is the true beauty and danger of a picture.