‘Negatives’: Art Book or Protest?
Photographer Xu Yong has published a book of images taken during the protest movement of 1989, but...
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China Then and Now
Since Deng Xiaoping initiated market reforms over three decades ago, China has transformed from an...
Journey Along Beijing’s Seventh Ring
In a new series of videos, That’s Beijing traces the proposed route of Beijing’s 900...
Expensive Cameras the Latest Corruption Tell-tale
Global Times reports that high-end photography gear has become a sign of officials’ illicit...
A Photographic Exploration of the One-Child Policy
China’s family planning policy, better known in the West as the one-child policy, was...
CDT Bookshelf: Howard French on China in Africa
The story of China in Africa is not just one of lumbering and faceless state-owned enterprises...
CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Tom Carter
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking...
In Slickness and in Wealth
ChinaFile has posted a slideshow of photos by Guillaume Herbaut of wedding photography sessions, a...
CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Bookmaker Colette Fu
Former Fulbright scholar Colette Fu has been constructing pop-up books for the past decade. She...
Turning Chinese Propaganda Against Itself
Wired profiles French photographer Eric Leleu and his project Subtitles—an examination,...
Photography: Scenes From 21st-Century China
The Atlantic’s In Focus photo blog presents 40 recent images of China, from homemade robots...
How 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 baubles. Such visible...
Photos: 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 cityscape must have had China...
Catching 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 income from fishing by...
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...
Tibet: Culture on the Edge
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...
Photographing China, from Rich to Poor, East to West
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...
Photographer Documents Toll of Labor Migration
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...
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