The City You Cannot Go Back To
This is a story about collecting memories.
In China new buildings, roads and cars are viewed by the governors and the people as a source of wealth and happiness.
Destruction and reconstruction is rapidly increasing in the cities. These changes harm people who have lived there for years. There are memories in these locations; memories of childhood, working, living and loving. As homes, schools and workplaces are destroyed so too are the memories attached to them.
These images attempt to protect personal memories by preserving fragments of my past places, spaces and objects.
After 10 years working as a prison officer in China, Guangxi An became a journalist for local newspapers, then the team leader of the photojournalism department of The Oriental Morning Post in Shanghai.
In 2008, he began studying the MA degree in Photography of Bolton. He travelled to the University of Missouri as a visiting professional fellow in 2010.
回不去的故乡
当下中国，变化太快。
经济的快速发展，带来了许许多多的改变。这其中，有主动向往更美好生活而拆掉原来建筑的改变，也有自己的房屋被迫被迁到另外一个地方的被动改变。
每一次回故乡，总不愿意去原来工作和生活过的地方，甚至是自己的老家。这里已经变的面目全非，已经和很多年前的样子，重合不起来。
当我看到小时候长大的房屋、自己曾经工作的办公室、多次经过的厂房等诸多地方，都变成了平地或废墟时，觉得自己已经伤痕累累。拿起相机，把一些画面拍下来，为的是能在将来，给自己疗伤。我更愿意把这些照片当和一个个记忆的墓碑，去保存脑海里原本有可能消失的记忆。
我知道，无论如何，正在变化的故乡，是再也回不去了。
Anguangxi@gmail.com