Returnees 海归
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PhotographerGueorgui Tcherednitchenko, United Kingdom
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I spent the summer of 2018 in Beijing, interviewing and photographing Chinese citizens who had spent a few years abroad before returning to live in China. Their foreign experience catapulted them into an elite, and although they are by all accounts successful, these Returnees are still finding their way forward, trying to reconcile their new careers, their experiences abroad, and the social and family expectations that come with the reality of coming back home. It is these frictions — and how they are dealt with — that this project seeks to explore.
Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko (b. 1982, Moscow, Russia) is a portrait and documentary photographer based in London, UK. Born in Russia and having grown up in France, he spent 6 years in Japan before relocating to the UK in 2017 to pursue an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. His cross-cultural background informs much of his work, which focuses on people and notions of home, foreignness, and the common ground, and seeks to explore and a shared humanity that transcends national, economical, and cultural borders.
