A Quiet Beauty Along the Yangtze HONG KONG - Nadav Kander, a photographer based in London, spent three years taking photographs along the Yangtze River in China for a series called "Yangtze - The Long River." In 2005, around the time Mr. Kander started thinking about the project, he was intrigued by the country's rapid growth and constant change. "It was a place," he said, "that I wanted to stand in." Most of the images have a kind of emptiness to them. They don't show multitudes of people or towering buildings. "I found myself stepping back a lot," Mr. Kander said. People were getting smaller and smaller in my pictures. A fuller selection of the photos, which have a distance to them that lends a strange and quiet beauty to the bleak scenes and industrial architecture, appears on the Lens blog. And an exhibition of Mr. Kander's Yangtze images is set to open Thursday at the Flowers Gallery in New York.