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Anaïs Martane

Imperte par la foule, Concert de Cold Animal Get Lucky Bar 2003 Gelatin Silver Print	Pbulic, Get lucky Bar 2003 Gelatin Silver Print	Public du Cold Blood Animal, Get Lucky Bar 2003 Gelatin Silver Print
Jia Zhangke, Diao Yinan, Yu Likwai rejoineut la visite du selectioner de films de la Quinzaine des Realisateurs 2003 Gelatin Silver Print	Le mues de Banbou de ches Chen Tao et Zhang Quan, Dandian 2003 Gelatin Silver Print	Dans les rires je towre, Dans le larme je roule Wan Xiaoli, Xiao Jun miao, Beijing 2002 Gelatin Silver Print
les fans a Huo Ying 2003 Gelatin Silver Print	Les deuxe chats du Huo Ying norris par Guo Ying Zhang Wei Wei 2003 Gelatin Silver Print	Boy‘s room, Xiao Jun Miao, Beijing 2002 Gelatin Silver Print
“le meilleur de vins et sorti, mes invites de manque partout n'arrivent pas” Wan Xiaoli a cote du Rirer Bar 2003 Gelatin Silver Print	Et maintenant tu iras ton destin, et maintenant j'irais mon destin”- Zhou Yun Peng, Tian Tong Yuan 2002 Gelatin Silver Print	Bu hiver Gelatin Silver Print

THEM

This is how I call this series of photographs from the moment I started in 2002.

A group of Foreign students .

A bar in Sanlitun.

A concert a friend found -- how, I do not know. Empty. Nobody but us. Listening for the first time the music from an ancient time -- the music of the Wild Children.

It’s not pop. It’s not a fad. It’s just perfect.

Some friends speak to the band. They have their own bar in the bar street of south Sanlitun .

"Come!" they say.

Zhang Quan, Xiao Suo, Zhang Weiwei, Guo Long, Xiao He, Wan Xiao Li, etc. They were young, they were doing music -- sincere music -- and they were far from home.

They broke boundaries and models. They were choosing their own life, finding freedom in their passion and their hard work.

We found in them the bridge to dive deep into this impenetrable Chinese world, sharing our love for Emir Kusturica and Manu Chao’s music of life.

We became friends instantly.

I photographed THEM, learning about becoming an adult in a foreign country, learning photography and patience, learning about friendship and mostly tolerance. They were my family.

Now we all have kids and our own life. When we meet, the emotion of our shared youth is still and always will be alive.

Some of my friends married THEM. Since I stop photographing THEM, now it’s US.

These images are the reflection of their life from 2002 to 2006 with moments of happiness and tragedy.

Anais Martane

2017.10.09

Chinese Portraits

Anais Martane

Anais Martane

Anais Martane is from Nice, France. She began learning Chinese at age 14 and continued to study the language at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO). In 2001, she arrived in China as a foreign student to study at BNU (Beijing Normal University) and started to photograph as a hobby. In 2002 she published her first images through Traffic d’Images, a young French photography agency. She went on to work as press photographer for several French and foreign newspapers like Liberation, Le Monde, Telerama, Elle, and Marie Claire. After 2004 she started to work as portraitist for Time Magazine, which led to her first book 'Chinese Portraits' published in both French and English and distributed worldwide. She photographed the youth of Beijing's underground music scene from 2002 to 2006. She has since turned to documentary film and narrative cinema and she has now lived in China for 16 years. She continues to work in multiple media.

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