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"Back street in Shanghai"

I like an alley walk and I have the habit of entering to the back street or the thin alley. It is three years ago just to think that it will become even an alley photographer rather and to have began to have gone out the alley in East Asia, such as Tokyo, Souel ,Pusan, Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing, and Shanghai, for knowledge. It was thought final that the alley in China was the most interesting. Although the alley as an old building and narrow space exists in every place, there are not so many alleys which feel man's fresh presence except for a market or a morning fair. That is, urbanization rarefies the feeling of a life of an alley.
　
I see an old Japanese movie and feel humanity of a downtown area. However, even if it actually carries out to the way of a downtown area, under the influence of a decrease in the birthrate, there are also few people and only an old person's figures are conspicuous daytime. Under dull influence, the shutter is getting down from some of stores.

Recently, the city in China is also prosperous in apartment construction, and old rows of houses are pulled down rapidly. Neither a bath nor a toilet is in an old house, and it is narrow in it. The idea that it is happier to have got compensation from the government and to transfer to the housing complex of the suburbs is also reasonable. It is not that a foreigner says this and that, either.

But an old life form is also extinguished at the same time an old construction group disappears. Although a sight of the father and son who are playing China chess in the road, and the children who run about with a watermelon can be seen, it is thought that such a life style also disappears and I feel that it is regrettable somehow to me.

Although Shanghai is the city expanded centering on the settlement ground after making it contract Treaty of Nanjing after modernization, it is also the old town which has 700 years or more of history from the first. Although demolition is also already progressing considerably, if you still walk along the alley around old Shanghai Prefecture castle area, the old apartment is located in a line and it can be immersed in a nostalgic feeling.

It thought that an old life style would be recorded, and I hung the old twin-lens reflex camera, and went out the downtown area in Shanghai for photography.

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