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Children left behind
For her photo essay “Family Portrait,” photographer Tami Xiang visited children whose parents have left home to find work. Her assemblages each combine a portrait of the absent parents (right) and one of the children, most of whom are being raised by their grandparents (left). The “woven” structure of the images invokes the local tradition of weaving bamboo mats
Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year.
Photo: Tami Xiang
Wan Jun, 22, has just graduated from university. His parents work in Wuchang, 11 hours and seven minutes away from their hometown, Wanzhou. In the last 14 years, they have only visited five times, for five to ten days each time – for example, to apply for official documents
Photo: Tami Xiang
Zhou Fangya, six years old, goes to kindergarten. Her parents work in Shenzhen, 27 hours and one minute by train from her hometown of Wanzhou. In the last five years, she has only seen her parents four times, for five to seven days each time, during Chinese New Year
Photo: Tami Xiang
Xie Lingling, seven years old, is in first class and Xie Xiangfei, 10 years old, is in third class. Their parents work in Guangzhou, 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last seven years, they have only seen their parents six times, for five to 10 days each time during Chinese New Year
Photo: Tami Xiang
Inner circle
Great love and great conflicts: Few relationships are as emotional as those between parents and children. For this issue, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons talk about what unites them — and someimes also about what divides them
“Your children are who they are”
Swedish Cartoonist Liv Strömquist describes the small absurdities of being a mother - and the funny side of parenthood
A quiet goodbye
Sometimes a deep gulf opens up between parents and children. Poet and author Daljit Nagra recalls a difficult childhood
Read this online or discover much more in our (German language) issue
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