Bohai Bay: China’s Threatened Coastline – Published on the Guardian

I am pleased to share with you my latest published work, a feature on the Guardian about the environmental threats facing China’s Bohai Bay. Followers here will be familiar with some of this work as I have been sharing images from this project the past couple of months on my Instagram and Facebook feeds. It’s […]
British Council Talk at Chongqing University Film School – Listen in!
British Council Talk View more presentations from seaninchina Last week I visited two Chinese cities, Shenyang and Chongqing, for the British Council as part of their Smart Talk series. We had a great turnout in both cities, with over 500 people turning out altogether. One of the highlights for me as a photographer is to […]
New Multimedia – China’s Wetlands – Asia Society
This week the Asia Society and I launched a new collaborative project which brings together 4(!) brand new multimedia pieces, focusing on my Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting on issues surrounding the disspaearance of China’s wetlands. As regular readers here will know, this is is a project that I began last year and have continued […]
Dongting Lake Wins Press Photographer’s Year First Prize in Multimedia
Dongting – A Lake in Flux from Sean Gallagher on Vimeo. I am really delighted to share the news here on my blog that my multimedia piece, ‘Dongting: A Lake In Flux” recently won 1st Prize in the prestigious British Press Photographer’s Year 2011. These awards highlight some of the best wotk from British photographers […]
Zhalong Wetlands – China’s Wetlands Crisis
It has been a little while since my last update here on the blog, for which I apologise. It has been a very busy few weeks with lots of shoots and lots of travels. As a way to say thanks for your patience (if you have dropped in on here recently and found no […]
Dongting – A Lake in Flux
Followers of my blog will know that since last summer, I have been working on a project photographing and creating multimedia reports about the state of China’s wetlands, sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The above video is the third in a series of seven that I am producing. Four and five are […]
Washington DC Environmental Film Festival
March 15-27 saw the holding of the Washington DC Environmental Film Festival in America’s capital. It was a showcase of short films made about environmental issues around the world and I was lucky enough to have been invited to show some of my recent work from China, as part of the presentation given by the […]
Images from ‘China’s Threatened Waters’ Exhibition Opening at Yugong Yishan
[slideshare id=6014053&doc=yugongyishanexhib-101203023041-phpapp02] The evening of November 22nd saw the opening of the first public print display of ‘China’s Threatened Waters’, as part of the Greening the Beige annual party. We had a great attendance with a few hundred people attending the events and it really was a wonderful evening. Please find above a small selection […]
Visualising Issues – Slideshow and Notes from Environmental Workshop at UCCA
[slideshare id=5869543&doc=ucca-101123001230-phpapp01] <<Return to the Learning Zone Last weekend, I was invited by Beijing based eco-group Greening the Beige to give a workshop at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. We had a great turnout, with many students and photography enthusiasts all keen to see images from my environmental work in China over the past few […]
Environmental Photography Workshop @ UCCA, Beijing
For anybody who is in Beijing this coming weekend, I will be giving a workshop at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art on Saturday 20th November from 4:30 to 5:30. I’ll be talking about ways to photograph large-scale environmental issues and trying to give participants help in helping form and shape their own ideas for […]