Tag:China
This week marks the arrival of one the year’s most notable environmental days, Earth Day. According to The Earth Day Network, “April 22 — marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970….Earth Day broadens the base of support for environmental programs, rekindles public commitment and builds community activism around the world through a broad range of events and activities.” Followers of my work will know that one of the main focuses of […]
View this new collection of travel imagery from Macau, China now available exclusively through National Geographic Creative. Please click the images for more details.
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 […]
The landscapes of the county of Yangshuo are legendary across all of China. Jutting up from the earth like the upturned jaw of a shark, the famous karst mountains scrape the sky, creating breathtaking views which serve as a constant backdrop to any visit to Yangshuo. This will be the scene for our new Yangshuo Photo Workshop, 2015! Located near the city of Guilin, in southern China’s Guangxi Province, Yangshuo county is a perfect mix of dramatic landscapes and unique […]
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Are you in Washington DC on Thursday March 27? If yes, please join me and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for a talk and presentation about my work in China and India, taking place at George Mason University from 12-1 p.m. Here is more information from the Pulitzer Center website: Gallagher’s starting point in India is the country’s rapid growth and breakneck development over the past 30 years juxtaposed against the extensive pollution from a range of industries. Chromium […]
Please join me and the Pulitzer Center on Tuesday March 25 for Urban Legacies, Rural Traditions, a series of Pulitzer Center funded short documentaries. This event at the Carnegie Institution for Science will be part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. Here’s some more information from the Pulitzer Center website: Join us on Tuesday, March 25, for a screening of short documentaries by Pulitzer Center grantee journalists about the environmental and social consequences of urban industries–and a […]
If you are in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area next week on the evening of Monday March 24, please stop by the University of Michigan where I will be giving a public talk from 7:30 p.m. The talk is hosted with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and will focus on my work covering environmental issues in China over the past 7 years. For an insight into some of the issues I’ll be talking about, check out this video from 2012 […]
Quick post today to say thanks to the City Weekend Beijing team for featuring this interview (below) on their website recently. He is about to head to Nanjing for a series of meetings with members of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, but Sean Gallagher sits in the booth of the noisy UBC Coffee with a cool composure and balanced energy that can only be expected of a Brit with a stiff upper lip. Even when discussing the world’s most […]
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 […]