Postcards from China's Industrial Cauldron (NYTimes)
Many of the most haunting images are posed. Black-faced coal miners just emerged from hell, their eyes small points of white, might be deer caught in a headlight. A steel worker's dignity seems to emerge right through the crude mask and goggles he must wear in the fiery, poisonous mill.

The exhibit, entitled The Unbearable Heaviness of Industry, can be seen on photographer Zhou Hai's website: www.zhouhai.com