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Uncovered

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Created: 08/26/09
Last Edited: 08/05/10
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This is my photography Masters project about Chinese illegal immigrants in UK. I have been interviewing and photographing these people for a year. Having discovered the stories behind them, I designed this book called Uncovered. It is a book without a cover as a cover is the book's identity; none of the people in this book have a real identity here in UK. It is also a book that can be read both ways due to the way I set the text. Reading right to left, and front to back it is in English and by reading from left to right and back to front, it is in Chinese.

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
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  • Uncovered
    They are a group of no identity. They are deprived of one. After a years interviewing and photographing, they are uncovered. The Chinese illegal immigrants in the UK revealed their true selves in this book. If a book-cover is where people identify a book, no identity, like the ones in it, 
    is offered to this book. Perspective is all that matters: read the book in any usual way and repeat the same in reverse learn their stories in English, or in Chinese, or in both. The choice is upon you, but for the personages, they do not have one.

    Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008