Mirrors and windows

Dane Jacob Holdt hitchhiked across the U.S. in the 1970s, taking 15,000 slides of life on the fringes. He picked cotton with sharecroppers (in exchange for room and board), he walked the streets with prostitutes, drag queens, pimps and drug dealers, he attended Klan rallies, he narrowly escaped getting knifed, shot, beaten to death. Twice a week he sold my blood plasma to earn the money he needed for film. Individually his shots are not the best, but in totality they present a picture of America that most would not care to see or even think about. How much has changed since the ’70s?

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Liyu & Liubo began with a simple idea: re-enact stories from the newspaper. Of course this could go a lot of ways–it’s all in the execution. It’s just a starting point, a restriction that sends you a particular place.