ANN ARBOR— Life in the streets and narrow alleys of Beijing is recorded in the photographs of Anna Drallios on display in the Rackham Galleries Dec. 9-18. Drallios is a student in the University of Michigan’s Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and serves as a graduate student instructor in the University’s School of Art and Design.

A resident of the Chinese city from 1995-96, Drallios focused her camera on the residents of the traditional neighborhoods called hutongs, areas that are fast disappearing with the current accelerated modernization throughout China.

Drallios’ subjects had seldom or never had contact with foreigners. They called her laowai” ” old outsider” or foreigner. Her unexpected presence in these self-contained neighborhoods momentarily interrupted life there. Some of the photographs in the exhibit document these brief interruptions as the inhabitants respond to this outsider/photographer.

” Laowai! An Old Outsider in Beijing” can be viewed in the Rackham Gallery, located on the second floor of the Rackham Building, Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-10 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Admission is free.