Hutong to Highrise is dedicated to extensively documenting the disappearing hutong communities of old Beijing. Hutong to Highrise (H2H) visits Hutongs, interviews the residents and dispenses cameras so that residents may photograph what they deem important in their daily lives. H2H is slowly building a photographic archive of Beijing's rich Hutong culture, one supplemented with the stories, and insights of Hutong residents.
As H2H is interested in recording the historical lifestyle of Old Beijing, we are gather the opinions and perspectives of Beijing hutong residents in hopes of giving them a voice and a means to record their history. We will exhibit their photographs and produce a photo book with individual captions as well as articles documenting first hand accounts of everyday life in a tradional Beijing hutong.
