Statement by the photographer, Peter BIALOBRZESKI
“On a pedestrian bridge a young woman beats up her boy. She shouts and screams at him, while he throws, while he throws himself on the dirty ground.” (© Peter BIALOBRZESKI, 2017)
Background information
"The 'City Diaries' book series is a joint publishing project between an independent publisher and award-winning German photographer Peter BIALOBRZESKI. Each diary focuses on a single city, somewhere in the world, against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing world. Until today these diaries has been published about these worldwide cities (in chronological order): Cairo, Athens, Wolfsburg, Taipei, Kochi, Beirut, Wuhan, Zurich Budapest, Osaka, Dhaka, Yangon, Minsk, Belfast and Linz. Each diary focuses on a single city, somewhere in the world, against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing world. All books were designed by Andrea RAUSCHENBUSCH, the series maintain the same size and contain 51 double-page photographs as well as a diary text. The 'Dhaka Diary' series was shot between 22 February – 12 March 2017 and is the 7th installment in the City Diary book series.
Content
In this photo volume, 'Wuhan Diary', Peter BIALOBRZESKI turns his gaze on the Chinese city of Wuhan – now infamous as the source of Covid-19 in late 2019. Shot between 22 Feb – 12 Mar 2017, his images reveal a bustling city of over 19 million coming to terms with its own rapid development.
About the German photographer, Peter BIALOBRZESKI (b. 1961, in Wolfsburg)
Photo books by Peter BIALOBRZESKI
- Format
- Swiss bound pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14 x 21 x 1 cm., 112 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 500 copies