One of the winners of this year's Sony World Photography Award at Cannes used Shanghai for his inspiration. Michael van der Bogaard, based in Cologne, Germany, got first place in the Architecture category for a series about Shanghai's less glorious lanes and alleys.
The full set of images can be see at Michael's website.



For some reason this picture reminds me of something we saw in Yichang - an abandoned storefront at night, with an old man in his undies and a solitary light bulb...