Peking: Photographs by Zeng Nian

Charles Goddard. Ian Lambot

Studio Publications 1990

120pp

A collection of photographs by a Peking-resident photographer that aims to record the spirit of everyday street life in Peking. The photographs were taken over a period of two years from 1987 and the events up to and including Tiananmen Square are covered. Some narrative text is included.

'Ian Lambot trained as an architect and worked briefly for the Richard Rogers Partnership before arriving in Hong Kong in 1979, where he lived for the next 18 years. After stints running an architectural model-making studio and working with Foster and Partners – on the early stages of the Hong Kong Bank project – he set up Watermark Publications, publishing in the years since numerous books on architecture, engineering and design, including four volumes on the work of Norman Foster and, of course, City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City.

He now lives in the UK, where he continues to design and publish books on subjects that interest him.

Text courtesy Blue Lotus Gallery.'