Shanghai’d for the Month: Photographs by Tim Stegmaier can be seen at Iris BookCafé through Saturday, the intriguing result of the Cincinnati photographer’s month in Shanghai in 2013/14. Stegmaier has an individual eye and a seemingly endless interest in how people go about their lives and the urban areas in which those lives take place. His color sense is sharp, and the photographs fascinate not only through their subject matter, but also through their accomplished sense of design. The China most of us unwittingly carry in our minds is outdated; Stegmaier shows us an undeniably 21st-century place and time, underlaid by centuries gone before.
Through Saturday. Free. Iris BookCafé, 1331 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, irisbookcafe.com.
This article appears in Sep 9-15, 2015.
