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Benoit Aquin’s “The Chinese Dust Bowl” at VU Photo

James David Morgan wrote this post at 1:12 pm on September 4th, 2009.

Benoit Aquin's Camion En Feu (Truck on Fire)
Benoit Aquin’s Camion En Feu (Truck on Fire), from the series The Chinese Dust Bowl (2006-2009)

From our friend Alexis Desgagnés comes word of tonight’s opening of Benoit Aquin’s The Chinese Dust Bowl at VU Photo in Quebec City:

The images in this series, which were produced between 2006 and 2009 in the course of the photographer’s journeys along the legendary Silk Road and which show the effects of desertification on arable lands as the result of human activity, range from desert landscapes to environmental refugees to boom towns covered in sand in an almost apocalyptic universe, both magnificent and frightful.

The Chinese Dust Bowl is on from September 4 to October 4, 2009 at VU Photo (550 Côte d’Abraham, Quebec City) and the free show is open Wednesdays to Sundays 12:00PM to 5:00PM.

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