‘Modern china’ is a series of photographs taken by Liz and Max Haarala

Hamilton while travelling across the country in 2008.



The images tell a story of modern China where old tradition meets the

new. Apart from economic changes, China is also experiencing a massive

cultural change. Consumerism and capitalism are no longer seen as the

evils they once were, and cultural influences from the West are mixing

with old China. It is this mix of new and old that Liz & Max have

captured in these photographs.



Whether it be the skyscrapers jetting out of the ground in Pudong

Shanghai, which only relatively recently was still farmland, or the

masses of Chinese tourists, cameras in hand, visiting the Yellow

mountains that were used in traditional paintings or people observing

the Bird’s Nest being constructed, one thing is certain: China changes

by the second.