Shanghai: Shooting it Like a Pro

By Mark Rykoff

The Bund

Travel Greg Girard for TIME
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At 7:30 a.m., weather permitting, local couples gather on the Bund — the city's historic waterfront promenade — for ballroom dancing. The daily ritual, captured here by Canadian photographer Greg Girard, evokes the pervading marriage of East and West in Shanghai.

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