China’s exuberant, weird, terrible and brilliant amusement parks sprang up like mushrooms after the Deng reforms, and now many of them have fallen on hard times — even as Disney makes ready to open Disneyland Shanghai.
Stefanio Cerio is a brilliant photographer of abandoned places and things who made a name for himself shooting rotting cruise liners and empty ski resorts. Now he presents a gallery of images from Happy Valley to Amazing World and Treasure Island Pirate Kingdom — some abandoned and some merely shuttered for the off-season.
The pictures come from Chinese Fun, Cerio’s new book of absurdist images from China’s deserted places.
Chinese Fun [Stefanio Cerio/Hatje Cantz]
China’s deserted amusement parks – in pictures [Stefanio Cerio/The Guardian]
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