Photographer finds surreal beauty — and few humans — inside a Chinese EV factory | News Channel 3-12

Photographer finds surreal beauty — and few humans — inside a Chinese EV factory | News Channel 3-12

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Depicting endless rows of uniformed workers, Edward Burtynsky’s iconic images of mid-2000s Chinese factories spoke to the seemingly inexhaustible human labor behind China’s economic miracle. Just two decades later, the photographer’s glimpse inside an electric car plant near Shanghai presents the opposite phenomenon: a complete absence of people. “This is a factory built by humans but run by robots,” Burtynsky said …