A Conversation with ‘Tank Man’ Photographer
Petapixel’s Eric Calouro talks to AP photojournalist Jeff Widener, whose iconic and sometimes parodied ‘Tank Man’ photograph has, he says, “been a blessing and a curse”: Basically it’s a lucky shot...
View ArticleCatching Fish Using Birds: Images of a Dying Art
At The Atlantic, American documentary photographer Michael Steverson unveils a photo essay on the ancient yet dying Chinese art of cormorant fishing, featuring two elderly brothers who supplement their...
View ArticlePhotos: Rising Above China
At Panos Pictures (via Howard French), a set of 63 photographs by Kacper Kowalski shows Chinese industry, agriculture, communities and development from the air: ‘The person who coined the term...
View ArticleHow to Photograph a Chinese Official
Chinese officials’ sensitivity about appearance has only intensified since sharp-eyed netizens started bringing down officials caught wearing—or even not wearing—luxury watches and other incriminating...
View ArticlePhotography: Scenes From 21st-Century China
The Atlantic’s In Focus photo blog presents 40 recent images of China, from homemade robots to rocket launches and urban construction to horse-herding. The People’s Republic of China, the most populous...
View ArticleTurning Chinese Propaganda Against Itself
Wired profiles French photographer Eric Leleu and his project Subtitles—an examination, commentary, and parody of the red banners seeking to pacify the worries of Chinese residents soon-to-be displaced...
View ArticleCDT Bookshelf: Interview with Bookmaker Colette Fu
Former Fulbright scholar Colette Fu has been constructing pop-up books for the past decade. She has designed pop-ups for award-winning stop motion animation commercials and has freelanced for clients...
View ArticleIn Slickness and in Wealth
ChinaFile has posted a slideshow of photos by Guillaume Herbaut of wedding photography sessions, a booming business in China where every couple is expected to display a formalized portrait in their...
View ArticleCDT Bookshelf: Interview with Tom Carter
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking 35,000 miles across all 33 Chinese provinces and has made his home in Asia and China for the past ten...
View ArticleCDT Bookshelf: Howard French on China in Africa
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises mechanically dispensing stadiums according to blueprints wired from Beijing. In China’s Second Continent:...
View ArticleA Photographic Exploration of the One-Child Policy
China’s family planning policy, better known in the West as the one-child policy, was enacted in 1979 to address the social, environmental, and economic problems looming over the country’s massive...
View ArticleExpensive Cameras the Latest Corruption Tell-tale
Global Times reports that high-end photography gear has become a sign of officials’ illicit income, in a similar vein to the luxury wristwatches which have betrayed many of their owners: The Xinhua...
View ArticleJourney Along Beijing’s Seventh Ring
In a new series of videos, That’s Beijing traces the proposed route of Beijing’s 900 kilometer Seventh Ring Road, encompassing the neighboring municipality of Tianjin as well as eight cities in Hubei...
View ArticleChina Then and Now
Since Deng Xiaoping initiated market reforms over three decades ago, China has transformed from an isolated economic backwater into the world’s second largest economy by nominal GDP. The accompanying...
View Article‘Negatives’: Art Book or Protest?
Photographer Xu Yong has published a book of images taken during the protest movement of 1989, but chose to include only the negatives and not the processed photographs. Viewers with an iPhone or iPad...
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