This series of work combines independently made trips to China, where as a total outsider, I photographed what I saw as a nation undergoing an enormous transition, from feudal to industrial to economic powerhouse, but still keeping the relics of its past. With any change of this nature comes the inevitable dismantling of meaningful historical and cultural artefacts. Space is at a premium and once great institutions, parks, temples and palaces make way for the new China – one built in a rush with little concern for longevity or craftsmanship – the very things that were once prized not so long ago, will be lost to memory. The photographs are both markers of China in transition and glimpses of a past being erased under new construction.