Change is everywhere in China - cities tirelessly devouring their own history, the bulldozers moving faster than memory. Eli Dijkers spent time on the streets of Shanghai documenting what remains when the concrete has been poured and the old neighbourhoods have disappeared: the unknown faces of people seeking their fortune in the city, navigating a world that demands participation or punishes absence. Yet beneath the gleaming surface, Dijkers found invisible threads connecting the inhabitants of this city to 5,000 years of history - surfacing unexpectedly in a gesture, a doorway, a face caught in the last of the light.

Are you rich today?

Shanghai, China

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