Shenzhen #[nn]

Guy Delisle's Shenzhen arrives in this 2011 Dutch-language edition from Oog & Blik and De Bezige Bij, collecting his autobiographical account of time spent in one of China's most frenetic industrial cities. The cover, drawn by Delisle himself, sets the tone perfectly: a solitary figure in a dark jacket strides across a vivid red background, dwarfed by a towering, pyramid-like mass of identical workers hunched over glowing monitors — a quietly striking image of individuality swallowed by scale. It's a deceptively simple composition that captures the alienation and fascination at the heart of Delisle's work.