Tag:China
China has been in the headlines again this week for its infamous air pollution hitting hazardous levels again. According to an article in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, “China, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, is suffering from serious air pollution, largely attributed to smog from coal-fired power plants.” It adds that the “onset of winter and the need for more heating of homes means the problem has intensified in the capital, which has an estimated population of […]
This past summer, I was invited by the Pulitzer Center to take part in a unique event in Beijing, focused on the topic on “ecological civilisation”. The conference, hosted by the Pulitzer Center, The Communication University of China and the Yale School of Forestry was a bringing together of scholars, journalists, business leaders and government officials. Throughout the day we discussed China’s major environmental challenges and also the role that religion and the concept of ‘ecological civilisation’ has to play […]
This week a story is published on the Wall Street Journal titled, “Inside Uber’s Fight With Its Chinese Nemesis, Didi Kuaidi“, looking at the rivalry between the two companies looking to capture the taxi market in China. While outside the normal scope of many of the stories I typically cover, I was approached by the Journal to illustrate this story through images of drivers who use both Uber and Didi Kuaidi, along with portraits of management figures at the latter […]
Read the full story here, on the Wall Street Journal’s Website.
Pleased to share a recently published photo-essay on the digital media website, Mashable, who recently approached me to share this story with their audience. Those of you who follow my work will be familiar with this story on Beijinger’s reaction to air pollution. This however is one of the first major publications for the photo-essay which has already spread quickly on social media. Here is a small extract from the story, but I encourage you to visit the Mashable site […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5wA5zzD9Kc This short video tells the story of Dai Chengdong and his late father, Dai Anlan, who was killed during the Japanese army’s invasion of Burma during World War 2. Part of The Economist‘s new series, ‘Asia’s Second World War Ghosts’, this collection of stories attempts to highlight the lingering emotions that still survive to this day amongst the people of Asia who still live with the consequences of war. The video above was shot by myself, with editing and […]
I recently had the opportunity to travel to the island of Taiwan, off the cost of mainland China, to photograph in the capital city of Taipei. It’s a place I have always wanted to visit and it proved to be an eclectic mix of old and new China, blending perfectly the mix of traditional culture and cutting-edge city life. All these new images (below) are now available for licensing through National Geographic Creative. All of these images from Taiwan are […]
Eyes on China Project is a new Instagram feed that aims to highlight new perspectives on the middle kingdom, through the eyes of local and international photographers. A young boy runs along a wooden pathway in a forest in the Jiuzhaigou National Park, in Sichuan Province. The park is one of the country's most famous, with upwards of 2 million people visiting each year. It is part of a global biodiversity hotspot which covers much of China's south-west mountain areas. […]
7 years on and one of my first major stories, on desertification in China, still gets plenty of attention. Followers of my work will remember that I began this work in 2007 and expanded it significantly in 2009 when I was awarded my first grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to travel overland across China to cover this issue. This week, the work has featured on LensCulture, one of the leading websites for contemporary trends in photography. Back […]
I’m pleased to share with you a recent interview with my agency, National Geographic Creative, on the role that timelapses and hyperlapses have played in my recent work for commercial clients. While not the main focus of my work, they offer a unique and interesting way to communicate some of the dynamic changes we are seeing here in Asia. To see more of my library of available footage, click here. Here’s the interview: -How have you seen the use and […]