TITLE: Toilers of the sea - Sea harvesting in Fujian, China

The Eastern part of China is famous for its mudflats stretching for about 400 km along the coast of Xiapu, Fujian. Thousands of locals are involved in harvesting of seaweed, fish, sea slugs, abalones. The land and portions of the sea are leased to the locals willing to exploit them. The area is not only interesting from a sociological point of view (study of the division of labour, relationship between state and labourers, land ownership, etc.) but also from a pictural point of view, many landscapes resembling old Chinese ink paintings.

AUTHOR: Corneliu Cazacu (Germany)

My name is Corneliu Cazacu and I am a Danish-Romanian photographer and writer based in Munich, Germany. Specialised in nature/architecture/reportage and music photography (see www.rockphotographer.us).

Published in newspapers and magazines such as Romania libera, Foreign Policy, EUobserver, Dilema veche, etc. As a music photographer provided images for the website and tour posters of Banned from Utopia, the US Frank Zappa tribute band, and Robert Martin, its leader. Collaborations with several other bands and musicians, in particular those participating in the yearly Zappanale festival in Germany..

Winner of two first prizes and a second prize in the "Mihai Vasile" photography contest organised by the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism, Romania, 2015 (http://www.premiile-mihai-vasile.com/corneliu-cazacu).

Winner of the SIR photo contest Munich, 2016 (photographing integration of refugees in Munich).

Published in the April 2015 National Geographic US edition (two-page spread).

Winner of Travel Photographer Society contest 2017 (People & Culture; http://travelphotographersociety.com/tps-awards-top-45/).

Some of my photographs can be found in private collections in the US, Germany, France, Denmark, Romania, etc.

Exhibitions:

1996-1997: Plougmann & Vingtoft Headquarters, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998-2016: Collective yearly exhibition in the European Patent Office, Munich, Germany
2015: Presentation of Maidan revolution photos and participation in the panel debate "Ukraine in the eyes of Eastern European Intelligentsia" in Bruxelles, Belgium