This New Topographics series by Li Fan maintains his consistent photographic sensibility: calm, restrained, and respectful of the site’s inherent condition.

Sculptures stand alongside tall towers; red lanterns hang beside adobe walls; blank signs spread across the wasteland; abandoned arches rest quietly among withered woods.

Traces of human activity are no longer mere embellishments to the scenery, but have become an inseparable part of the plateau landscape. Ancient relics, contemporary constructions and age-old mountain masses overlap and interweave with one another on this frontier land of the Pamirs.