The Politic Issue II 2023-2024

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PHOTOGRAPHY STORY

SHENZHEN REWIND

LINXI CINDY ZENG

SHENZHEN REW IND

BY LINXI CINDY ZENG For three years, Shenzhen was my address, but not my home. The miracle city only felt aggressively utilitarian and vacuously cold to me—until I started seeing it through color-suppressant filters. For me, it takes more than one story to understand a place, and fewer noises to come to appreciate it.

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