China is well known for its mass-production economy. But these factories are about as far from Foxconn's iPad plants as the imagination can wander. In Dafen, a suburb of the coastal city of Shenzhen in China's south-eastern Guangdong province, thousands of artists labour constantly to reproduce famous paintings for the mass market. Scroll down for video Knock-off masterpieces: A painter works on a copy of a portrait in a studio at Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province Mass production: A logistics company worker carries oil paintings for packaging and probable sale overseas A vendor waits for customers in a gallery: The Dafen district is believed to be the largest mass producer of oil paintings in the world
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Dafen Oil Painting Village is a suburb of Shenzhen in China's Guangdong province
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Here artists produce up to 60 per cent of the total global volume of reproduction artworks
Painting brushes are placed for sale at a shop in @placeholder: With as many as 5,000 artists working in the suburb every day, there is a large-scale art supplies economy to support them