article_snippet: Richard John Seymour's "Yiwu Commodity City" photo project began in January 2014, when he established both the style and content of
article_snippet: When Richard John Seymour returned to Yiwu in August, Richard John Seymour felt well-prepared to begin shooting.
article_snippet: Shooting Yiwu in a repetitive way, for Shooting Yiwu, becomes a very interesting way of describing the place, as each store becomes describable only by the items for sale within it," Seymour said.
article_snippet: For me there (is) quite a beautiful metaphor in Yiwu, there is a kind of beauty in the numbness of the expressions in contrast with their colorful surroundings, perhaps highlighting the perils of untapped consumption," Seymour said.
article_snippet: The "Yiwu Commodity City" photos are part of a larger series by Seymour titled "Consumed," and it was completed in collaboration with the Unknown Fields Division, a nomadic design studio that works to show how distant landscapes connect to the rest of the world.
article_snippet: I'll often see a particular item whilst walking around London and think to myself, 'I'm sure that came from Yiwu,' Seymour Seymour said.