Demain Shanghaï

Dazzling, almost disquieting modernisation… Marc Riboud has captured all the excesses of Shanghai. Between skyscrapers and old districts, the photographer shows us a city full of contradictions: a financial centre, a cultural crossroads, but also a mythical city with a sulphurous scent of opium and magnolia. Steel storeys, urban portraits and city lights: in Demain Shanghaï, Marc Riboud paints a portrait of an ambitious and bewitching city that is taking off in a race for gigantism. “My passion for photographing things that move and change has never been so stimulated and fulfilled as on each of my returns to Shanghai. Marc Riboud