Monthly:August 2023
In this new series of videos, I want to give you an insight into what it is like photographing with me on the streets of some of Asia’s most interesting cities. We start in my home city of Beijing, China. My work has evolved over the years. In my coverage of the climate crisis, I now use drones, shoot documentary films, incorporate portraiture etc., but the routes of my photographic approach lie in documentary and reportage photography. This means capturing […]
21 Influential Environmental Photographers to Follow in 2023 – Expert Photography I am honoured to be included on this new list by Expert Photography of “21 Influential Environmental Photographers to Follow in 2023” alongside many photographers whose work I admire deeply, including (but not limited to!) Paul Nicklen, Christina Mittermeier, George Steinmetz, Tim Laman, Esther Hovath and Ami Vitale.
Typhoon Doksuri brought havoc to large swathes of China recently, as consecutive days of heavy rains brought widespread floods. According to Reuters, “Typhoon Doksuri battered northern China this week with extreme rain, breaking Beijing’s 140-year rainfall record and dumping volumes of rain that normally fall in a whole year in the populous province of Hebei…Dramatic swings between extreme heat and intense rainfall are testing China’s ability to cope with increasingly wild weather, as high temperatures challenge power grids and water […]
On August 22nd I will be sitting down with David Campbell of the The VII Foundation to talk about my work on the climate crisis and China. Click the LINK to register for the talk which will be a conversational event, with questions from the audience. “How should the climate crisis be reported? What issues in Asia are central to coverage of the climate crisis? And what is it like covering the crisis from China? In this event, David Campbell […]
If you were reading the Guardian recently, you may have seen two of my images appear in the article “Facing Extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country”. Have you heard of Tuvalu? If you’ve followed my work over the past few years you have surely heard of it. But for those who are unfamiliar, Tuvalu is the world’s 4th smallest country by land area, with a population of only 11,000 people spread out over a number of islands […]