Tag:published work

Lens on China – City Weekend

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 […]

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Inside China’s Environment Crisis – Wall Street Journal Video

My new eBook, Meltdown: China’s Environment Crisis, continues to spread through news outlets and was picked up by the Wall Street Journal last week. I was excited to see this publication as the WSJ decided to cover the project with a slideshow and video interview which you can watch above. Below is the introductory text on the WSJ about the project: Summer snowstorms, foul air pollution, litter-choked waterways, grasslands turning to desert – these are just some of the challenges […]

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China Dialogue Interview – China’s Environmental Crisis

China is growing fast and, as it grows, it is faced with urgent environmental challenges. Climate change, species loss, pollution, water scarcity and environment damage are not problems confined to one country: they are challenges that concern all the world’s citizens, but the rise of China gives them a new urgency. Tackling these challenges will require a common effort and common understanding. Here at chinadialogue we aim to promote that common understanding. chinadialogue is devoted to the publication of high […]

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5 Myths About China and the Environment – National Geographic News Watch

Delighted to share with you the news of a recent guest blog post that I contributed to the National Geographic website, in their News Watch section. The post is titled “5 Myths about China and the Environment” and highlights some of the misconceptions about China’s environmental issues that I’ve come across over the years covering these issues. Below is the first one. Myth 1. Reintroduction of the Giant Panda Into the Wild Has Been a Success Natural forests cover about […]

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Mongabay: Change on the roof of the world: new book explores climate change and the Tibetan Plateau

A quick post today to say thanks to the folks at Mongabay for featuring excerpts from my new eBook on their website this week. If you’re not aware already, Mongabay is a wonderful resource for all the latest news and stories related to the natural world. If it’s not a bookmark in your browser, it should be. Here’s an excerpt from the post: “With soaring mountains and vast grasslands, the Tibetan Plateau covers approximately one quarter of China. The plateau’s […]

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North Korea Images on PetaPixel & Feature Shoot

North Korea news seems to have quietened down lately in the mainstream media but a couple of photo-related outlets recently picked up on my blog post ‘Inside North Korea: Photographing in the World’s Most Secretive Nation‘ which I re-posted here on the blog a couple of weeks ago. Click the link if you missed it when it was first posted. Many thanks to PetaPixel and Feature Shoot for sharing the images and story with their followers. Please do check out […]

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New Published Work: China Dialogue & Deutsche Welle

A couple of quick links today to some recent published work. The first is on the excellent China Dialogue website. If you haven’t had a chance to view the CD website before, it really is a very good hub of all environment-related news from China, with contributors from all sectors. It is presented bilingually, therefore reaching a wide readership in both China and abroad. They recently ran my story ‘Between the Glacier and the Dam’, looking at how climate change […]

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Published Work: CNN Photo Blog and International Herald Tribune

CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU – CNN PHOTO BLOG Excerpt… The majority of glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in central Asia are shrinking rapidly, according to a comprehensive study published this year in the Nature Climate Change journal. Photographer Sean Gallagher recently visited the region to document how rising temperatures have affected the vulnerable communities and ecosystems on “the roof of the world.” …Read and view more on CNN INDIE FILMMAKERS FEEL HEAVY HAND OF BEIJING – INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE Excerpt… Independent filmmaking is […]

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Mei Yan, CEO of Viacom China, for Serafina Magazine

I recently had the opportunity to meet and photograph one of China’s leading media women, Ms. Mei Yan of Viacom China. On assignment for the Brazilian magazine, Serafina, I met and photographed Mei Yan who runs MTV, amongst other media entities, at her office in central Beijing. I thought I would post a couple of the images from the afternoon here and give a small insight into the shoot. The image above is the one that the magazine chose to […]

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China’s Growing Sands in National Geographic China

[vimeo width=”580″ height=”300″]https://vimeo.com/10864307[/vimeo] I am delighted to announce here on my blog that this month’s issue of National Geographic China contains a 12-page essay of my images and text, about my Pulitzer Center-sponsored work on “China’s Growing Sands”. This is a wonderful opportunity to reach out to a new audience in China and bring wider attention to the issue of desertification, which is gripping the north of the nation. I considered just posting photographs of the layout here as a […]

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