The magazine of the photo-essay
March/April 2023 back issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
by Kai Löffelbein
Common Dreams reflects China’s transition, its multilayered society and co-existing
contrasts:modernity and tradition,urbanity and rurality, poverty and wealth, home,
identity, and uprooting.
While a large part of China’s population shares China’s economic success and has been
living in the fast lane for years, nearly 300 millions of Chinese migrant workers are living
marginalized in the outskirts of the large metropolises.
Since 2012, photographer Kai Löffelbein has repeatedly visited the different provinces of
China.The resultis a multidimensional book that takes a critical look at China’s social and
economic change with a focus on the environment of migrant workers - the realities of
their work and life, their worries and dreams.
