Children of Yamalike Mountain (2005-2009) by Tian Lin (June 12, 2010) 
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Introduction by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
The 2010 Three Shadows Photography Award is a juried competition that selects artists that display a spirit of individuality and artistic potential from the emerging trends of Chinese photography. Through professional production, criticism, exhibition, and publishing, the award introduces the newest achievements of Chinese contemporary photography to a broad audience. The juried competition is open to photographers of Chinese descent dedicated to the creation of contemporary photography art in China or abroad regardless of age.
On January 22, 2010, the Three Shadows Photography Award committee made their preliminary selections. Twenty artists were chosen as semifinalists out of more than two hundred applicants.
The final results of the competition were announced on April 17, 2010, after the opening of the first Caochangdi PhotoSpring. The Three Shadows Photography Award invited a five-member international jury to China, consisting of Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival Director François Hébel, Museum of Modern Art Photography Curator Eva Respini, art critic Karen Smith, Japanese art critic Kotaro Iizawa, and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre Founder RongRong.
Zhang Xiao received this year’s Three Shadows Photography Award, Wang Huan received the Shiseido Prize and Huang Xiaoliang received the Tierney Fellowship. Tian Lin, presented here today, was one of the semifinalists.
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Yamalike Mountain lies in the city of Urumqi in Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
The Urumqi Train Station stands at the foot of the mountain, with the railroad tracks forming a border of sorts.
Yamalike Mountain is Urumqi’s main shanty-town, and people call it the slums.
Tens of thousands of migrant or semi-migrant Uighur, Hui, Han, and Kyrghiz people live there.
Although some have lived on this mountain for fifty years, they are still unregistered, and without any identification documents.
The mountain is their home, and the city below is the place where they try to make a living and pursue their dreams.
Drawn there by destiny, I started taking photographs of this wild and lively mountain by chance. I became captivated by these pure, unaffected and dirty children.
These photos are from that place and about what I felt when I was there.
Tian Lin (1971) lives and works in Urumqi, Xinijiang Autonomous Region.
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