Documentary photos of the life and work of ordinary Chinese laborers are exhibited by Jiang Lingda, a freelance photographer in Shanghai over the span of nine years. Coming to China as a foreigner, many times we overlook the standard way of life here (or as you may see in some of my posts, finding the ordinary to be unfamiliar) and Lingda beautifully records these very instances.

A man irrigates urban plants while standing on a irrigating car.

A carpenter rests while renovating a store

A person gets up early for work.

Barbershop under a bridge

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