Rarely has a society been so shaken up by so many forces in such a short time. In China, all the rules of photography, indeed, of anything, can be broken and reinvented. There is a lot of great work coming out of China right now. You take a camera and can just shoot and get back great human stories, full of hopes and conflict. And since there is little to no privacy, you can shoot in people's faces all day and usually won't get in trouble.
