Behind the camera: K.S. McMullen on filming docu-fiction ‘Nail House’
I love hearing from passionate artists who reach out to share their works – photo essays, poems, short films – a reflection of their time, consideration and dedication….
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Behind the Camera: Alessandro Zanoni on Shanghai’s urban landscapes
In the years of photographing Shanghai, I’ve had a chance to meet a wide array of talented photographers and researchers as enthusiastic about documenting the city as I am. They…
Behind the Camera: Mathieu Bellec on the reality of Shanghai’s architecture through photography
Mathieu Bellec is a French architect based in Shanghai. He first reached out to me last year to discuss street photography. Mathieu had no website and instead brought his laptop…
Behind the Camera: Peter Dixie on Shanghai’s “Hinterland”
Peter Dixie is a Shanghai-based commercial landscape and architecture photographer, and founder of Lotan agency. Having trained first in the UK and later with a prominent Japanese film lab in Tokyo, Dixie…
Behind the Camera: Wu Hao (吴皓) on portraying “Rare but Real” patients
Wu Hao (吴皓) is an emerging talent in documentary photography in China. Born in Nanning, Guangxi province in 1987, he majored in news journalism in Shanghai and worked for…
Behind the camera: Fiona Reilly on street food photography
Armed with both a camera and an adventurous appetite, Fiona Reilly is fearless and passionate about street food. She writes LifeonNanchangLu.com which exhaustively details all the street food she has tried…
Behind the Camera: Lahem (拉黑) on capturing China’s post 80s and 90s generation
I first came across the introspective photography of Lahem (拉黑) (born 1984) on the Chinese street photography collective Zaijietou.com (meaning “in the street”). We finally met in 2010 at the Shanghai Photography Night run…
Behind the Camera: Clary Estes on being “Left Behind” in Jiangxi province
Clary Estes is a photojournalist born and raised in Kentucky, US, and spends a great deal working in Appalachia, East Asia and across the US. Currently, she is…
Behind the Camera: Yosuke Ishizuka (石塚洋介) on the act of photography
Caio Yosuke Ishizuka (石塚洋介) is a Japanese Ph.D candidate in Shanghai studying the role of photographers in advocating social movements across East Asia. He is also an…
Behind the Camera: Anton Hazewinkel on “Beijing Walks of Life”
Anton Hazewinkel’s dedication in depicting the wide spectrum of Beijing’s society is impressive. Be it the art collector next door, the punk rock band member or the frustrated unemployed, Hazewinkel…