In the fall of 2025, I was back in Beijing for the first time post-COVID and 10 years after I first started photographing Chinese film sets. I shared my photobook project at an event organized by the Royal Asiatic Society of Beijing and hosted at La Maison Lyonnaise. In conversation with film scholar Laura Baldis, we discussed how, at a time when Hollywood studios have been selling off their back lots, the Chinese film industry continues to construct monumental film sets, used as backdrops for countless period films and tv series.
Thanks to Ana Padilla for a nice write up and interview in The Beijinger about the project.
