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The Shanghai metro system was established in 1993. Just twenty years later, it became the world’s longest underground, transporting an average of ten million people daily. Fascinated by how this development has changed the city’s socio-economic structure, I explored the landscapes and the lives around every terminal station in 2013.
The terminal metro stations have become landmarks of the rapidly expanding city limits. Visiting each once, I spent a morning or afternoon documenting the brief encounter. The images were taken in my initial two months of four years living in Shanghai, during the hottest summer the city had experienced in 140 years. Ambitious expansion plans call for 25 metro lines with over 1,000 km of length by 2025.
The project is published by Be-Poles as the book Shanghai for the Portraits de Villes series. It is now in its fourth edition.