‘Negatives’: Art Book or Protest?
Photographer Xu Yong has published a book of images taken during the protest movement of 1989, but...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 24, 2015
Photographer Xu Yong has published a book of images taken during the protest movement of 1989, but...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 20, 2015
Since Deng Xiaoping initiated market reforms over three decades ago, China has transformed from an...
by radish | Nov 24, 2014
In a new series of videos, That’s Beijing traces the proposed route of Beijing’s 900...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 20, 2014
Global Times reports that high-end photography gear has become a sign of officials’ illicit...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 9, 2014
China’s family planning policy, better known in the West as the one-child policy, was...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 15, 2014
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
by Natalie Ornell | Feb 13, 2014
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 11, 2014
ChinaFile has posted a slideshow of photos by Guillaume Herbaut of wedding photography sessions, a...
by Natalie Ornell | Jan 8, 2014
Former Fulbright scholar Colette Fu has been constructing pop-up books for the past decade. She...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 20, 2013
Wired profiles French photographer Eric Leleu and his project Subtitles—an examination,...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 6, 2013
The Atlantic’s In Focus photo blog presents 40 recent images of China, from homemade robots...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 7, 2013
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 baubles. Such visible...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 31, 2013
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 cityscape must have had China...
by Cindy | Jul 15, 2013
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 income from fishing by...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 25, 2013
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...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 1, 2013
Outside Magazine has published a slideshow of photos by Phil Borges from his new book, Tibet: Culture on the Edge. The book documents Tibet as it confronts the triple threat of, “global warming, development, and cultural...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 12, 2013
The New York Times highlights two photography projects aiming to capture different aspects of China’s diversity. Following a six-month photographic trip across the United States, Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 5, 2013
In 2011, photographer Liu Jie captured the division of Chinese families by labor migration in a series of portraits. Against scenic countryside backdrops, his subjects posed with empty chairs representing family members who had...