Carpe Diem is no exception

is no exception

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It is a beauty that approaches abstraction and yet is ultimately less about appearance than the unceasing processes of change and renewal at work in nature

Edited by Bruce Davidson and Donna Ranieri

Carpe Diem is no exceptionWhen we talk about Ba ling hou (born after the 1980s) in China, we are actually talking about the first generation born under the one child policy and raised during the reform and opening up led by Deng Xiaoping after the Cultural Revolution (1966 1976). This generation grew up together with the Internet and social media, melting into a consumer society that is totally in rupture with the preceding generations. Luo Yang, a photographer born in 1984,