The Italian photojournalist’s bond with China began in 1974, the year of his first trip as a correspondent for the weekly Epoca. He would return over and over again in the following decades, creating images and photo-stories that have promoted him, in the eyes of the Chinese people, as one of their most beloved storytellers during Mao's final years.
The ChinaChinaChina exhibition is a distillate of a thirty-year journey when the Great Land was still considered very remote from Italy. Giorgio Lotti's shots give us an outline of a society that no longer exists or has hidden itself behind modernity.
The exhibition ideally closes with "Filmed documents", which presents a selection of unpublished footage taken during Giorgio Lotti's last trip to China in 2002.