Model City
Anthony Reed
Ordos, Inner Mongolia | 2021–ongoing
In the vast landscapes of Inner Mongolia, ambitious visions of urban life have taken architectural form. Monumental public spaces, grand residential developments and carefully planned infrastructure suggest a city conceived as much through imagination as necessity.
Photographed in Ordos, Model City explores the uncertain relationship between architectural ambition and lived reality. Moving between functioning urban centres, unfinished developments and spaces suspended between purpose and possibility, the series considers how visions of progress are constructed, inhabited and transformed over time.
Neither a portrait of failure nor a celebration of modernity, Model City presents the contemporary city as an evolving proposition, where imagined futures encounter the complexities of the present.
Anthony Reed
Ordos, Inner Mongolia | 2021–ongoing
In the vast landscapes of Inner Mongolia, ambitious visions of urban life have taken architectural form. Monumental public spaces, grand residential developments and carefully planned infrastructure suggest a city conceived as much through imagination as necessity.
Photographed in Ordos, Model City explores the uncertain relationship between architectural ambition and lived reality. Moving between functioning urban centres, unfinished developments and spaces suspended between purpose and possibility, the series considers how visions of progress are constructed, inhabited and transformed over time.
Neither a portrait of failure nor a celebration of modernity, Model City presents the contemporary city as an evolving proposition, where imagined futures encounter the complexities of the present.
