The South Street Village

• Photographer
  Franky Verdickt

„Cities, as in dreams, are built out of desires and fears.”, writes Italo Calvino in The invisible Cities. Nanjiecun (The South Street Village) continues to be run on Maoist egalitarian lines. The project shows the only Maoist village in China where the people are mere background actors in a giant epic story. A place where the community are the producers of their own happiness, where people receive free housing, electricity and receive free healthcare. The Nanjiecun village promotes itself as a brand for real communist ideology in the land of Mao Zedong. The project was created in cooperation with the inhabitants of this village.