Hutong

In the exhibition Galerie Julian Sander is showing a selection of motifs from the extensive series “101 Portraits of Hutong” by Chinese photographer Xu Yong. In his series, created in 1989/90, he focuses on the history of Beijing’s traditional residential areas with their centuries-old houses, backyards and narrow alleyways, the so-called hutongs. Xu Yong was one of the first photographers…