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The peoples of the Silk Road in focus
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CINDY Bajema from California’s San Francisco Bay Area is a photographer specializing in documentary and travel photography. Since 2008, she has lived and worked across Asia, including China, India and the Philippines.
For years, Bajema has worked for non-governmental organizations.
When traveling around the world, Cindy focused on exploring cultural treasures and people’s communities. She tried to discover what separates different peoples — and what brings them together.
Now settled in Hangzhou, Bajema’s work is the focus of the exhibition “From Indian Snow Mountains to the South China Sea, Cultures along the Silk Road” at the Hangzhou Library through April 8.
The vast Asian continental and sea regions were divided by long borders, which created barriers between different nationalities and countries. However, those borders cannot stop cultures and traditions spreading between different nations and generations.
Bajema considers the Silk Road as a bond that played a role in both commercial and cultural exchange. It broke borders and limits of different countries and distributed products and culture via traders and travelers.
She recorded people’s similarities in belief, daily life, tradition and food in Laos, India, Myanmar and China — a project that took her seven years.
One of the photos that immediately draws visitors’ curiosity depicts people preparing silkworms for worshipping the silk god, taken in Yuhang District, where natives still keep the tradition of weaving silk. Today, local Qingshui brocade is protected as Hangzhou intangible heritage.
Silk producing techniques vary according to different countries along the Silk Road, but they share some similarities, which inspired Bajema’s work.
In addition, she presents that intercommunication still happens in these countries since people continue traveling and doing business with each other. Cultural exchange, she says, can in return promote the economic development.
Date: Through April 8 (closed on Mondays)
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