Chen Jiaojiao and Peng Yangjun COLORS 70: BEIJING CHRONICLES

Peng Yangjun and Chen Jiaojiao are the Creative Directors of Colors 70, the magazine of the communiation research center of Benetton. For Colors 70 they make a portrait of modern Beijing. The photographers see the city through everyday stories of its inhabitants.

Peng Yangjun (on the photo left): "I was born in a small city in the southern part of China. The first song I learned as a child was about Beijing’s Tian An Men Square. Like other kids I longed to see the capital and had endless fantasies about it based on textbooks, radio and TV. I never had an actual relationship with the city until 1996, when I went to Beijing for the first time. I thought it was the greatest experience I had ever had! Now, to me Beijing is just the city of my girlfriend’s family."

Chen Jiaojiao was born in Beijing and grew up there: "I lived there until I was 22. To a little girl, the city meant home, school and all the familiar narrow streets. For the past four years, as a traveler, I began to miss Beijing badly and wanted to know more about the city. And now, through COLORS, I have finally had the chance to pass again and again through the city, to explore its corners and secrets, and to chat with people whom I only passed by before, by chance. Maybe only when you leave a place can you feel its true essence."

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foto: Peng Yangjun and Chen Jiaojiao, Creative Directors of Colors 70. Chen Jiaojiao and Peng Yangjun/Colors/Fabrica