Ai Weiwei's Photographs

2011
Studio complex in Shanghai designed by Ai Weiwei / FAKE Design, demolished in January 2011
Ai Weiwei was asked by the Shanghai government to build an arts and cultural studio in 2008. Just after the center was completed in 2010 the government inexplicably declared the structure illegal and in January had it demolished and plowed over. Ai Weiwei photographically documented the process.

• 2011 Person of the Year Runner-Up: Ai Weiwei