Real Dreams Project by Ruben Lundgren - For his project "Real Dreams", Beijing based photographer and curator Ruben Lundgren immersed himself within the Chinese news cycle for six years. The photobook explores the idea that China, within the Western mind, is choked with the most ‘ludicrous incongruities’ that need to be assimilated before one can come close to understanding the country.

For his project "Real Dreams", Beijing based photographer and curator Ruben Lundgren immersed himself within the Chinese news cycle for six years. The photobook explores the idea that China, within the Western mind, is choked with the most ‘ludicrous incongruities’ that need to be assimilated before one can come close to understanding the country.Real Dreams Project by Ruben Lundgren $01 - Ruben Lundgren's \$
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Beijing based photographer and curator Ruben Lundgren (鲁小本) graduated from the photography department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He made a name within the conceptual photography duo WassinkLundgren with publications as Empty Bottles (2007) and Tokyo Tokyo (2010). Since 2015 he has been a photographer for Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant as well as an independent curator of Chinese photography. Together with Martin Parr he co-edited The Chinese Photobook (2015) and with He Yining he he curated China Imagined (2020) at BredaPhoto presenting a decade of Chinese contemporary photography

For his project Real Dreams he immersed himself within the Chinese news cycle for six years. The photobook explores the idea that China, within the Western mind, is choked with the most ‘ludicrous incongruities’ that need to be assimilated before one can come close to understanding the country. The photographs provide an exceptional wide-range of visual incongruities taken all over the country. From a robotic bartender, full-automatic pet dryer, to alien whiskey sellers, the book gives a wholly original and humorous insight into present-day China on the basis of this absurd facade. Recurring themes in the work are the eager embrace of technology, the changing political climate and the malleability of photojournalism.

More information: www.rubenlundgren.com