Tim Franco 11/28/13 Tim Franco 11/28/13

Chongqing - Mega Urbanisation

As I was back in Chongqing for a special assignment on urban farming, I also continued working on some images of this incredible megapolis. From construction site to amusement park and a view of the city at dusk.

Tim Franco 11/2/13 Tim Franco 11/2/13

Little punk portrait in Beijing

A few weeks ago, my old shanghai friend ask me if I could do some portraits of her for the release of her upcoming Vinyl LP . Since I was passing by through the capital, I ve spent an hour around her hour and on her rooftop taking photographs of her. I am looking forward to hear the music and if you never heard her voice, I highly recommend you to listen her former band, Boys Climbing Ropes.

Tim Franco 10/30/13 Tim Franco 10/30/13

Architecture in China | Made By Chinese

Made by Chinese | Available in 2014

In 2011 / 2012, I have spent about a year working with a great team of people on a book about Architecture in China. After more than a year of scanning, editing, writing, the book is finally here and it looks incredible !

Its a double volume box with a first book gathering most of the text and some of the photos and another 400 pages book gathering most of my photo work ! It is with great pleasure that I rediscover the photos. Together with journalist Frederic Edelmann and with Urbanist Jeremie Descamps, we travel most of China, from cities to country side to explore the most unique work of architecture made in China. I would like to thanks the gallery Enrico Navarra and especially Sebastien Morreu who did this project possible.

The book will be available in China first and then France and others. Publishing date and launch event will be announce through my website . Here below a few snaps from inside the book. Most of the photo have been shot in large format slides 4x5 and the real prints is really nice to look at !

Some of the work published in the book can be seen on my website here : http://www.timfranco.com/spaces/

Tim Franco 10/14/13 Tim Franco 10/14/13

Travel Story for M Magazine ( Le Monde )

This summer, I have worked on a special travel story for M Magazine. Shanghai viewed through the eyes of a french author. Here is the double spread in the magazine

Tim Franco 9/20/13 Tim Franco 9/20/13

Chinese Economy Downturn for the Wall Street Journal

As the production and export is slowly moving south towards South East Asia, lot of chinese cities who once boomed during the export rush in the 90's and 2000 are now struggling to renew their economy and to keep jobs for all its migrant workers. I went down to Yantian near Shenzhen to photograph a story for the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323527004579079543848190238.html

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Tim Franco 9/8/13 Tim Franco 9/8/13

Jiang Qiong Er | Portrait in Shanghai for Le Monde

Sang Xia is a new Chinese Luxury brand reporting to Hermes. Jiang Qiong Er, Shang Xia's CEO started as a window designer for Hermes and is now opening her first shop outside China in the center of Paris. I went to her private showroom last week to take a couple of portraits for an article in Le Monde to be published soon. The place was neat and simple, with a tea room where walls were made of dry tea leaves.

Published in 10th of september in Le Monde

Tim Franco 9/1/13 Tim Franco 9/1/13

Venice Beach

This summer, I spent some time on the US west coast, especially shooting portraits on Venice Beach. The diversity of the people strolling around the walkway amazed me and I wanted to capture that with my old rolleiflex. Unfortunately, the shutter broke and only the first photo of each roll came out. Here are 3 of the 4 photos that came out from those 4 rolls shot on the beach.

Tim Franco 8/17/13 Tim Franco 8/17/13

Feature in CAPITAL | Berlin Germany

Chongqing Vertical Communism Feather in CAPITAL

Chongqing Vertical Communism feature in CAPITAL

CAPITAL | Berlin Based Magazine did a paper on Chongqing and featured my series | Also available on their IPAD versions with more images

Tim Franco 7/14/13 Tim Franco 7/14/13

new york | subway acrobats

While commuting between Manhattan and Brooklyn on the L train, you might come across Kaheen and his group of acrobatic dancer. Almost everyday, they come from Brooklyn and Queens and ride the L train between Union Square and Bedford. " This is where people give the most ! On good days we make about a 100 dollars " say Kaheen. Their performance take train in the middle of the commuter - using train bars and handles, each of the group member dance to the rhythm of the music making impressive acrobatic moves. Here is a few photos taken during one afternoon commuting together with them.

Photos by Tim Franco