Monthly:October 2013

Tibet is One of World’s Cleanest Areas…Except in the Places it Isn’t

A couple of news articles caught my attention last week regarding environmental conditions on the Tibetan Plateau that I wanted share with you. Regular readers here will know this a subject close to my heart having covered this issue in my project ‘Meltdown: Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau‘, for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in 2012. The first article, Tibet is One of World’s Cleanest Areas, was the first to catch my attention on Oct 22nd. A Xinhua […]

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China’s Epic Smog Seen from Space – A City Disappears

First, I’d like to apologise for my lack of posts recently. I am on the road in Japan at the moment, shooting an assignment and trying not to get caught up in Typhoon Francisco which is currently descending on the south east of the country. While I have been out of China, it seems that some of the worst smog in recent memory hit the city of Harbin. The scenes in these pictures are quite amazing. It looks like PM […]

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Inside China’s Environment Crisis – Wall Street Journal Video

My new eBook, Meltdown: China’s Environment Crisis, continues to spread through news outlets and was picked up by the Wall Street Journal last week. I was excited to see this publication as the WSJ decided to cover the project with a slideshow and video interview which you can watch above. Below is the introductory text on the WSJ about the project: Summer snowstorms, foul air pollution, litter-choked waterways, grasslands turning to desert – these are just some of the challenges […]

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Photocrati Fund 2013 Winners and Finalists Announced

The Photocrati Fund 2013 winners and finalists have just been announced and I’m very pleased to share with you the news that I was lucky enough to receive an honourable mention for my project ‘Jakarta: The Sinking City’, above. The Photocrati Fund offers a $5000 grant to a photographer to undertake an important humanitarian and environmental photography project. Our goal is to identify outstanding photographers and to provide the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and […]

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China Dialogue Interview – China’s Environmental Crisis

China is growing fast and, as it grows, it is faced with urgent environmental challenges. Climate change, species loss, pollution, water scarcity and environment damage are not problems confined to one country: they are challenges that concern all the world’s citizens, but the rise of China gives them a new urgency. Tackling these challenges will require a common effort and common understanding. Here at chinadialogue we aim to promote that common understanding. chinadialogue is devoted to the publication of high […]

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Follow Me On My National Holiday Road Trip

This week, China is on its National Holiday. It’s a week of free days for everyone to mark the anniversary if the founding of the People’s Republic of China. As a result of this rare extended holiday, millions of Chinese are taking to the roads to return to their home towns and spend time with their family. I am in the middle of one such journey, travelling over 1000km to Shandong Province in the north east of the country. I […]

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