January – December 2026 With this project, I plan to trace the China–Europe Land-Sea Express Line, focusing on the Belgrade–Budapest railway—a quiet corridor through the Balkans that carries both goods and geopolitics. My attention is on the subtle transformations it leaves behind: the new rhythm of a freight yard, the shadow of a fence across a public path, the bilingual sign at the edge of a construction site. Plan of work: I will move between field photography, satellite perspectives, and archival fragments, weaving together what can be seen and what is withheld. Conversations with local residents will anchor these images in lived experience, while maps and diagrams will trace the railway’s political and economic footprint. The scholarship will support travel, production, printing, and public presentation, allowing the work to emerge as a layered study on the power of infrastructure. The goals are: 1. Complete a new photography series capturing the railway’s spatial and social imprint. 2. Create several large-scale prints integrating photographs, cartography, and text. 3. Build a digital “map of power” that merges visual and research material. 4. Present the work-in-progress or outcome in an open studio or exhibition. 5. Establish the conceptual framework for future research on the circulation of Chinese-made products, such as Transsion mobile phones, in Africa. The photographs uploaded were from my previous serie "the internal crusade."
