Prints for sale. Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40. Frame in the picture are example. Please contact me for information at info@alessandrodigaetano.com

Wo Bu Zhidao is a photographic project about China during its peak expansion and transformation, in the crucial years between the country's entry into the WTO (World Trade Organization) in 2001 and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. A unique period, during which China was shedding its old skin, redefining its urban, social, and economic fabric, and hurtling toward the future at a seemingly unstoppable pace. Today, China is a consolidated global power, but back then, it was a country suspended between what it had been and what it was becoming. I frequented China from 1988 to 2014 and lived there from 2002 to 2008, documenting through my photography the contradictions, frenzy, and ever-shifting identity of a country that would never be the same again. Wo Bu Zhidao is a photographic testimony of a historical moment of transition that, at the time, I could not have imagined would be so unique and unrepeatable. The book was curated by Manuela Mirabelli (curator and photo editor for Marie Claire) and Mauro D’Agati (photographer and publisher of 89Books). The texts, in addition to the author's introduction, are by Beniamino Natale (ANSA correspondent in Beijing from 2004 to 2016) and Michele De Lucchi (architect). Wo Bu Zhidao is published by 89Books and printed in two versions: - Standard edition - Special edition limited to 89 numbered copies, featuring Japanese binding, a softcover with UV printing on rice paper, and including a signed Fine Art Print (19 x 29 cm). Some copies are still available upon request. For info and availability, feel free to contact me directly.