Great Leaps Forward flags and graffiti

flags and graffiti

ISBN 978-3-9502773-1-9

Printed at Grafiche Veneziane

Fancy Pictures brings together six of Mark Neville’s socially engaged and intensely immersive projects from the last decade

artist and publisher Lukas Birk

Great Leaps Forward flags and graffitiGreat Leaps Forward unveils a series of photos drawn from a plastic bag bought in a Beijing flea market in 2016. Sealed tightly with a knot, the bag had settled there unnoticed for many decades. Upon opening the bag, over 300 photos were discovered, taken by an anonymous member of the Xian Physical Education Universitys department of Photography. All the images, meticulously depicting various athletes in action, often defying gravity, were shot on the