Once I started taking pictures, in Hong Kong, I haven't stopped, though my impression of the rest of China is that it is precisely how I had imagined: people seem to live grim lives, with consolation and comfort in a strong sense of community and commitment to common values; from my observations as an outsider, in public spaces herd behavior rules and individual creativity is absent. "Modernization" is evident, but I am not sure it is making things a whole lot better, not under a rural or urbanistic landscape profile and environmental damage and degradation are evident everywhere. And it is clear that even though things are functional and people who would live in favelas in Caracas, Buenos Aires or Manila here live in apartment blocks, they are apartment blocks that would quickly push me to suicide, if I were confined to them. I am sure security is better than in Housing Projects in American Cities, but anything else that can be seen from the outside in these vertical behives, makes American Housing Projects look like a Shangri La.