30 YEARS in CHINA, to AVELLINO “CHINESE LIGHTS”: the VIEW of ENRICO RONDONI. THE PHOTO PREVIEWS

The opening is scheduled for October 6 at teatro Carlo Gesualdo in Avellino, but the exhibition Chinese Lights, four photographic reportage to tell the great change of China by Enrico Rondoni, journalist, Deputy Editor of TG5, will last until November 6. An opportunity not to be missed because Swifts, the author inter alia of the special “The Cat’s-paw of the Dragon”, broadcast on Channel 5, 2005 describes through 100 shots, all with the same camera although momneti made several, the profound transformation in what was the Middle Empire.
The first shots are of 1981, five years after Mao and tell of a China where everyone went by bicycle, all dressed alike and of a land which was far behind the West. When Swifts in 2010 and in 2011 he returned to people’s Republic of China, on the occasion of the Expo in Shanghai, as told, had a shock. “On every corner the country had changed, progressed and transformed into inmpressionante mode. The stimulus, says the journalist – was to use the same camera for 30 years before and to photograph the same corners of China “. The trip ends in Tibet where children are symbols of change.