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Fotografiska opens a photo museum in Shenzhen

The museum is on the third floor of Shenzhen Bay MIXC and covers about five thousand three hundred square metres; the ceiling is the dramatic part.

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Photo: Julian Herzog ( Website ) · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe photography museum Fotografiska has opened a new location in Shenzhen, its fifth worldwide and its second in China, the South China Morning Post reports.

  2. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterTHIS IS TEAM COVERAGE, HANK! Five exhibition spaces, fifty-three hundred square metres, and I can smell the gift shop coffee from here!

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAbout fifty-three hundred square metres, on the third floor of a mall.

  4. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterOne room has a ceiling twelve metres high, for oversized works! That's the high ground, Hank! We have to take it!

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the pictures are big. And the opening shows include one called ToiletFotoPaperGrafiska.

  6. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterRecap! Stockholm, then Shanghai, now Shenzhen, a technology city of sleek high-rises!

  7. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterThe museum's director, Christian Devillers, says Shenzhen represents one of the most energetic and forward-looking cities in Asia!

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIs anyone in danger?

  9. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterOnly your wallet! A regular ticket is sixty yuan, forty-eight for concessions, and it stays open until eleven at night!

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSixty yuan, open until eleven at night. That's the whole threat.

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The story so far

  1. ‘Father of Lan Kwai Fong’ Allan Zeman pivots to luxury homes · SCMP
  2. Rare Van Gogh painting in Hong Kong; Forbidden City workshops · South China Morning Post
  3. Hong Kong rethinks sustainable dining after Michelin drops Green Star · South China Morning Post
  4. Fotografiska opens a photo museum in Shenzhen (this story)

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