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Photos from the 3rd Hutong Photography Workshop w/ Bonnie, Scott, Tina and Kirsten

The temperature plummeted in Beijing this month but that didn’t stop us from heading out into the chilly hutongs for another “Hutong Photography” Workshop this weekend. Luckily for myself, guide Jessica Zheng and our students Bonnie, Scott, Tina and Kirsten the thermometer crept up over the weekend, hovering around 1-2C making it a perfect winter day to explore the hutongs. [nggallery id=11] Along with our class in the morning introducing everybody to the key, fundamental technical aspects of photography we […]

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Answering Questions from Pulitzer Center on YouTube

I was asked recently by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to answer some questions with regards to my reporting on the subject of desertification in China. This is part of their initiative titled ‘Meet the Journalist”, offering viewers a chance to get ‘behind the scenes’ and find out some of the motivations and working practices that go into the reporting by the grantees. I was happy to answer a few questions on my reporting, all of which can be […]

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Interview with BBC World Service

Last month I was interviewed by the BBC World Service’s Outlook programme for an article on my work on desertification for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The interview ran over the new year and has proved to be a wonderful new way to spread the message about this issue (the BBC World Service gets around 37 million listeners worldwide apparently). If you missed it, then you can click on this link here to listen to the entire interview. Here […]

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2010…

First, Happy New Year everyone! I hope this blog entry finds you well after what I hope was an enjoyable and festive-filled Christmas and New Year. I apologise for my lack of posts over the past couple of weeks. Christmas for me (as it is for most) is a big family occasion and I decided to step away from the computer/internet/twitter/facebook etc. almost entirely over the break, in order to spend some real quality time with family and friends in […]

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Happy Xmas and New Year

Wishing all readers a happy Christmas and New Year!!!

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