“Calm Before the Storm”: Photographer Captured Nightlife in Wuhan Market Before Pandemic
Back in 2016, in a time when, if we had been told what would happen in 2020, we probably wouldn’t have believed it. The Milanese photographer and art director Alessandro Zanoni lived in Wuhan, a Chinese city that absolutely everyone knows since a few months. From his apartment, the artist observed each evening the market which formed the pattern of the city’s nightlife, its stalls full of goods and its sellers, sometimes alone on their stand, late in the night.
“Here I am collecting a series of ‘stolen shots’ that I used to take in a bazaar that was assembled and disassembled every night in the area around my apartment, in Wuhan. Narrow spaces, four slats, as many plastic sheets and flights, the shop was ready to receive customers until late at night,” he wrote.
I moved to
Milan five years ago after eight years in London. It’s the only place in Italy where you can live to an international rhythm, with instant access to all the great things Italy has to offer.
Emilia moved to Milan five years ago.
Photograph by Emilia Antonia De Vivo
A revolution started here in 2015 with the Expo and IT hasn’t stopped since. Every sector of public life has been improved, from the transport system to the redesign of whole new districts like
Porta Garibaldi and
Tortona. So many world-class architects have worked here, from Zaha Hadid to Mario Cucinella. Today, Milan is Italy’s architectural laboratory.