Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

Totems is a project by French pho­tog­ra­pher Alain Delorme fea­tur­ing 15 images taken in China. Here is a lit­tle back­ground infor­ma­tion from the artist:
The pro­to­col is always the same in each of the images, oppos­ing the ver­ti­cal­ity of the migrants’ loads to the ver­tig­i­nous height of the mod­ern build­ings. The pho­tog­ra­pher also chose to priv­i­lege the indi­vid­ual, far from the usual pho­tos of crowds. Everything is recre­ated on the basis of 6,000 pho­tos taken in Shanghai dur­ing 2 art res­i­den­cies. The loads are clearly exag­ger­ated to draw the atten­tion to these “totems”, highly sym­bolic of the “made in China” and beyond of our con­sumer society.

To see the rest of the images from the series, click here.