Jia Zazhia blogzine on poetic PHOTOGRAPHY in & near China, plus other Beauties

在过去十年里，摄影师Jasper James先后定居纽约、伦敦、北京，看过许多大城市的全景，他对此感慨万千，故做了一个“人和景观”系列。我写邮件询问这个系列的初衷，这是他的回答：
我曾到过许多大都市，像东京、北京、上海，每次都想尽量爬高些以看到城市的全景和规模。我认为将个人和城市景观结合在一张图片中，视觉上看上去很有意思， 同时能以直接的方式表现出两者对抗的力量。大城市真是很奇妙，那么多人住在一起，充斥着各种各样不同的故事、希望、梦想，但是我们能够相互联系的就是一小 部分人，绝大多数都是陌客。我做这些图片的时候尝试过很多种方式去达到效果，其实这些作品也都是试验性的、与初衷有偏差的。

Over the past decade Jasper James has lived and worked in New York, London and Beijing. He saw many landscapes of big cities in the world and has lots of words to say, resulting in the “People and Places” series. I wrote to him asking what’s the idea of this series. Here is the answer by him:
I was visiting a number of big Cities such as Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and always tried to get as high up in the city as possible to give me an overview and a sense of scale to the size of the City. I thought by combining the individual and the cityscape in one shot it would be interesting visually and also in a very open way the two would then play off each other. I find big cities fascinating, with the huge number of people going about their lives, all the different stories, hopes and dreams, but we can only connect personally with a tiny number of people, on most levels we are all strangers. I tried a few ways of actually making the images, but it was basically trial and error until I got the results that you see.