The Night is Thick in Revue XXI | Patrick Wack

The French quarterly magazine Revue XXI published an extensive portfolio from Patrick Wack's series The Night Is Thick in its May issue to illustrate the current repression of China's Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region. The project represents the twofold dystopia that Xinjiang has become, where two parallel universes coexist: the weakened pulse of life within the Uighur community and the monetized version of an ethnic Xinjiang, a theme park of majestic sand dunes, camels and pretty local girls in flashy dresses. The second totally oblivious to the first.