Bejing is a notoriously hard city to pin down. It takes years of patient observation and interaction to start exposing the multifaceted nature of China’s capital. I can’t even begin to describe the number of parachute journalists who dropped in for a few days and...
Fat Baby graces the cover of The New Republic for the Chongqing Dockers
I am very excited to announce that my portrait of Fat Baby is currently gracing the cover of The New Republic. Last fall I traveled down to Chongqing to photograph what would become the turning point in the season for the Dockers, the city's first American football...
Peak Consumption at the New Century Global Centre Goes in Chengdu
The opening of the New Century Global Centre marked a new pinnacle for temples of consumption in China. Catering to the 14 million constituents of Chengdu, it is the largest building on the planet in terms of floor space and hosts all the necessities for the "modern"...
Counterfeit Paradises in the Media
Counterfeit Paradises is seeing a lot of play this year. So far it was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek in the United States, Wired in the United Kingdom, and Sonntagsblick Magazine in Switzerland. A big...
The Modern Terracotta Army and Chinese Nationalism
The military parade for the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China was held on October 1, 2009. It took months of preparation. Over 10,000 troops and all manner of tanks, artillery, missiles, and aircraft processed down the Avenue of...
Portraits of Gigi Chao, Asia’s Most Famous Lesbian, for The Times
This was definitely one of the more interesting assignments to come my way. The story of Gigi Chao and her father, Cecil, who put up a large bounty (HK$500 million) to anyone who could wed and bed his lesbian daughter, went viral on the Internet late last year. As if...
Counterfeit Paradises: The Halstatt of China
Hallstatt didn't even see it coming. The UNESCO World Heritage village nestled against a pristine lake in the Austrian alps hosts thousands of tourists drawn to its picturesque setting. Still, it didn't realize some of them were slowly taking its measurements in order...
Girls’ Generation K-Pop Factory Girls for The New Yorker
I am going to be playing catch up over the next month or two – lots of new work and clippings to share. These images are from an awesome article for The New Yorker delving into Korean pop music (aka K-pop). I flew down to Jakarta to witness a massive stadium concert...
Counterfeit Paradises: Minsk World Aircraft Carrier Theme Park
Chinese nationalism continues to peak with the country's emerging status as a world power, even if its military technology remains decades behind other nations. In 2012 the People's Liberation Army christened its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, which in...
“The Nine Lives of Ai Weiwei” Wins John Kobal Award at National Portrait Gallery
I am very pleased to announce that I was given the John Kobal New Work Award in affiliation with the 2012 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portraiture Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London this November. It was quite a whirlwind of an evening, and I must say I...