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How A Poster Gets From Here To There

Shanghai, 2006

On the theme of trains a poster in a dis-used shop in Shanghai (above) and a noticeboard in a back alley in Gulangyu Island (below). The gentleman figured in the picture is wanted in connection with planning train station bombings in China.

For all our assumptions about 24/7 connectivity how to reach the people who either prefer to spend time offline or don't have online access? At what stage does information swtich from digital to physical? And who does the conversion?

Gulangyu Island, 2006

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