Personally affected by the Three Gorges Dam project in China, Yang Yi payed homage to his hometown in a series of beautiful digitally manipulated images. Together with other villages, farmland and historical sides his village was claimed by the waters of the Yangtze river. He captured the remainders of his childhood home grounds before it got submerged in the 400 miles long reservoir of the three gorges dam. Yang Yi; "I don’t intend to dwell on the meaning to be found in my photography. What is important for me is that I came from that town. It is about all that we have in common there: our accent, our spicy coriander, the nod we give each other, a friendly signal to say hello when we pass one another on the street, these streets that we have traveled alongside our ancestors, that have herded us along together… this series was created for all of that. It will be my
personal memoir!"
Born in Kaixian, Chongqing in 1971.
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