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VII Foundation Online Talk – Covering the Climate Crisis from China

I recently sat down with David Campbell of The VII Foundation to discuss my work covering the climate crisis and reporting on environmental issues from China. If you missed the conversation, you can now watch it HERE I’ve known David for many years, so it was a great discussion, and it was really interesting to chat with him about how we use visual journalism as a way to communicate issues around the climate. I highlighted my work in Asia over […]

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Interview on L’Oeil de la Photographie – Cambodia Burning

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with Alison Stieven-Taylor from the Photojournalism Now website, discussing my recent work in Cambodia, as part of her In Conversation series. This conversation was recently shared on the L’Oeil de la Photographie, or Eye of Photography, website. Read the feature on the L’Oeil de la Photographie website HERE and watch the YouTube conversation I had with Alison discussing my Cambodia Burning project and other stories I have been working on […]

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Photojournalism Now – ‘In Conversation’ Interview

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Alison Stieven-Taylor of Photojournalism Now, as part of her their new video interview series. We talked about my work photographing environmental issues in Asia, with an emphasis on my recent Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting work in Cambodia and the impact COVID has had on news coverage this year. I hope you enjoy our conversation and make sure to listen in to the other interviews in the series.

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Documenting Climate Change Podcast

I was recently invited to speak with Chris King of the Documenting Climate Change podcast, a new online audio show dedicated to discussing topics surrounding coverage of the climate crisis. Click HERE to visit the website and listen to the full conversation I had with Chris. This week’s guest is one of the few people who from the outset of his exploration of climate change took a human-centric approach – whether documenting the impact of rising sea levels on coastal […]

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Multimedia Week Podcast

I had the pleasure this past weekend to sit down with World Press Photo Academy Connected Learning’s DJ Clark for the Multimedia Week podcast. If you haven’t listened to the podcast yet, it’s a entertaining mix of discussions about the world of photojournalism and its continuing evolution. Topics so far have included Chobi Mela photo festival, Storyhunter, ‘Journalism Vs Documentary’ and a host of podcasts with photographers and other media professionals. DJ’s a great host and was good to talk […]

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Interview With World Press Photo Academy – Connected Learning

A quick post today to share with you a video released this week of an interview I recently did with DJ Clark, from the Word Press Photo Academy. In this short video we talk about my recent Pulitzer Center sponsored project in India and discuss my transition into shooting video over the past few years. If you haven’t seen the series already on Youtube, there is a host of great interviews with many figures from the photography world. There are […]

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China’s Fragile Forests – Interview for the Pulitzer Center

For regular readers who have stopped by over the past few weeks, I must apologise for the lack of posts recently. The past couple of months were busier than I expected and blogging kept getting pushed back further and further down my list of things ‘to do’. Needless to say, I am back and will endeavor to post as regularly as possible in the new year. This is a new year’s resolution at the top of my list! First up […]

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Photographing the British Prime Minister, David Cameron | BBC News

Last week, I had an assignment from the British Embassy in Beijing to photograph the visit of British Prime Minister, David Cameron on his first visit as PM to China. This was a very exciting and interesting assignment and I plan to feature some of my behind-the-scenes photos here on my blog in the coming weeks. Photographing someone like the PM is a very unique experience and I thought it would be interesting to share some of my experiences with […]

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Featured Expert – John MacKinnon – Pulitzer Center #9

SEAN GALLAGHER, FOR THE PULITZER CENTER, BEIJING, CHINA John MacKinnon, of the EU-China Biodiversity Program, is one the world’s leading experts on biodiversity and the environment in China. He began his career in 1965 working with Jane Goodall in the famed study of the chimpanzees of Gombe. In 1968, he moved to Southeast Asia to study orangutans under the supervision of Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen. MacKinnon first went to China in 1987 to work on the World Wildlife Fund’s Giant […]

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Former student of Hutong Photography workshop featured in City Weekend

We were delighted to find out last week that Chelin Miller, who is a former student from one of out hutong workshops, was featured in Beijing City Weekend and interviewed about her experiences taking on of our classes. You can read a snippet of the interview here online and read it reproduced below. Well done Chelin! To see images from the workshop Chelin attended, please go here. Snap Happy: Hutong Photography *Amateur photographer Chelin Miller tells us why she hones […]

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