Shanghai carriers

A photo series by French photographer Alain Delorme shows China's consumer society through photographs of workers transporting veritable mountains of furniture and other goods.

French photographer Alain Delorme was born in 1979. Lives and works in Paris. Having visited Shanghai, Delorme tried to reflect his impressions of the bustling metropolis.

According to the photographer, many of these workers are immigrants who go to Shanghai in search of better opportunities.

According to Delorme, the series shows China's consumer society:

Looking at Alain Dnlorme’s photographs of modern Shanghai, one is tempted to use some kind of metaphor.

This is Sisyphus on a bicycle.

This is the weight of capitalism on the back of the worker.

Here's an example of human ingenuity.

Although, why all this poetry, when you can just look at these photographs and pay tribute to the simple ingenuity and determination of these people who transport goods from point A to point B.

Carts, bicycles, mopeds are the simplest form of transportation this side of the mule against the backdrop of a modern metropolis.

I’m tempted to remember William Faulkner’s phrase that man will not only endure, he will dominate.

Looking at this miracle of man, who would doubt?