After the Earthquake

In May 2008 an earthquake hit the Sichuan province in China killing at least 68,000 people destroying buildings, towns and cities and leaving 4.8 million people homeless.

In January 2010 I visited Dujiangyan City the closest city to the epicenter of the earthquake as part of a wider project in the Sichuan province. In the two and a half years since the earthquake a number of temporary re-settlement camps have been built to house refugees whilst new permanent housing is constructed to re-house them in the city.

These images show the people and places of one of the re-settlement camps called Qin Jian Ren Jia Camp, as well as an area called Xin Fu Jia Yuan being built to re-house the homeless in the city.