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© Eric Perriard, 2009, ‘Urban Soul #9’, Seoul / South Korea

“This work started with the aim of investigating a global shift that has fascinated me. Since 2008, for the first time in world history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. I was excited to be able to examine artistically one of the defining steps in the evolution of our civilization, even though this statistic only made official a trend which began long before. Within this context of an accelerating urban setting, I developed a photographic essay about people living in a cosmopolitan environment.

While wandering in Seoul City, I was looking to catch the instant when an isolated character encounters a moment of self-realization. I tried to capture their individuality, thoughts, and feelings such as loneliness or introspection. Has living in cities truly become part of human nature, or are we still adapting ourselves in order to survive? By keeping a certain distance from the subject, I could preserve the tension between the city and its inhabitant in order to start thinking about the human condition in a megalopolis.” (Eric Perriard about his project “Urban Soul”)

A week ago, also China’s leaders have announced that, for the first time in the country’s history, people living in cities outnumber people living in the countryside. Urbanites account for 51.27 percent of the Chinese population (that’s 690.8 million people, according to the country’s National Bureau of Statistics).

As the Wall Street Journal reports, the world’s most populous country’s rapid urban growth is far from over: hundreds of millions more people are expected to pour into China’s cities over the next two decades in search of higher paying jobs. To keep the country together, officials will have to reckon with how to build vast swaths of urban housing, sweeping transportation systems and a welfare net. (read more)

“Each one of us is the sum total of every moment that we’ve ever experienced, with all the people we’ve ever known.”

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