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Here is some work by British photographer Stephen Kelly<\/a>, currently working in China, the first images below are from his series Qi Lihe<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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The series explores the district of Qi Lihe, which sits on the outskirts of Lanzhou city in Gansu Province, north-western China.<\/p>\n

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It is home to thousands of Muslim migrant families who have left their homeland within the Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture and arrived into the city searching for job opportunities and ultimately, a better life. For hundreds of years the Hui and Dongxiang Muslim minorities have farmed the arid land surrounding their ancestral villages.<\/p>\n

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In recent years though, desertification has forced this once workable landscape to begin a dramatic change, impelling many modern day farmers and their families to migrate to the provincial capital in order to survive.<\/p>\n

The photographs below are from Stephen’s Sin City<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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The Sin City<\/em> series documents life in China\u2019s self-styled \u2018city of dreams\u2019. Situated on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, this semi-autonomous region of China is the sole territory within the People\u2019s Republic that permits gambling.<\/p>\n

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In 2009, Macau\u2019s thirty two casinos are reported to have made US $14.875 billion in gambling revenue, doubling that of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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See Stephen Kelly’s Foto8 Stories of the Week:
Qi Lihe<\/a>
Sin City<\/a>
Stephen Kelly’s website<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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