Method vs. Madness

Photographer Rian Dundon has spent much of the past 5 years documenting the lives of various 20-somethings living in and around the major cities of China’s Hunan Province.  Considered by many as China’s Lost Generation, these young men and women find themselves straddling a bridge between the values and aspirations of their parents’ generation and the realities of modern China.  Theirs is the struggle marked by a frustrating shrinking job market, the pressures of marriage (often arranged by their parents), sexual identity in a culture lacking any acknowledement of homosexuality.  All told, the struggle to find a niche in a society going through profound economic, sexual and cultural changes.  The result is a human drama that is played out in Dundon’s stunning black and white images.