“Aluminum balloons for sale at the China Commodity City, Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China. Published in the LOOK section of the New York Times Magazine, the image is from a photo essay called ‘Welcome to Tchotchke Town,’ about a marketplace that claims to be the world’s largest wholesale market for small goods. With more than four million square meters of vendors, the market displays our insatiable need for cheap consumer goods.”
