The Brooklyn Rail

Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness

The Swedish photographer Mårten Lange continues his investigation of nature, urbanism, and technology, focusing this time on China’s so-called “ghost cities,” the high-tech urban centers built so quickly that they were, at first, sparsely populated. The photobook is far from lifeless as Lange captures the delicate ways stereotypically sterile skyscrapers interact with their environment.