I visited the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House. It is always an amazing display of hugely diverse photos from around the world.
There were many on the theme of Transformation:
Boyuan Zhang from China
His photos of Xinjiang in NW China. It is a place where dozens of ethnic groups co habit and the social system is rapidly developing alongside the legacy of human civilisation from thousands of years ago.
Yan Wang Preston
Preston created a series of ‘ecology recovery’ landscapes in Yunnan Province in China. Where a small rural area is being urbanised to create ‘an international leisure town and an ecology model town’. The topsoil of the entire area is replaced by a type of red, semi artificial soil which forms the base of non-indigenous planting. Green plastic netting is used to cover everything unappealing to the eye. It is an 8 year project.
Connor Henderson
Mirrored entrance to Tokyo Plaza
Alexandra Fink-Milosovjevic
Hamburg Central Station using multiple exposures.
The Bigger Picture 