/ 2017 / Advertising / Architecture

Traces of Civilization

  • Photographer
    Zhao Gang, China
  • Studio
    Freelancer

Zhao Gang was strongly attracted by ancient relics from the first
time he got in touch with them. He consider them visible history
and vehicle of time.

In the process of trying to meet his feelings about monumentality
of those entities, dusk came into his attention. At this transient
day-into-night time, brightness of sky and earth could be properly
recorded into the atmosphere of eternity. Thus, foreground items
were refined to pure existences of artifacts rather than
accomplishments rousing emotional melancholy or pride. Though
dilapidated, they retain the dignity of being existent, and face
oncoming disappearance calmly. That’s also their humbleness
towards time and universe.

Zhao Gang touched those ancient relics with light, made them
emerge from dimness. That's their seemingly enduring but also
ephemeral existence in eternity.