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[Honorable Mention] Min Li, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
The Mushroom Market
Wengshang Village, Zhongdian, Yunnan, China
After the logging was banned in the region during the nineties, harvesting Songrong mushroom became the most important source of income for the Tibetan families living in these remote villages in northwestern Yunnan. Villagers climb up the steep mountain slope in the altitude above 4000 meters at 4 am to collect the mushrooms. The lady and her daughter were waiting for the export agents to arrive to open the afternoon market, where their harvest will be purchased and exported to Japan. This mushroom only grows on pine trees of certain age, which casts great uncertainty for the future of the local economy. The increasing reliance on this rare and unevenly distributed commodity has already caused much tension and fracture in the traditional pastoral society.
Camera make: Canon | Camera model: Canon PowerShot G6 | Exposure time: 1/125s
Aperture: 4.0 | Metering mode: Multi-segment |Focal length: 28.8125mm