Year of the (Przewalski’s) Horse
Late December, the Hurstville Library in southern Sydney, Australia, contacted me about participating in an exhibit, “Stories of the Zodiac: Exploring the 12 Animal Signs in Asian Culture” now…
Projects
Success! Help Portrait Shanghai 2013
This past Saturday, the Help Portrait Shanghai crew met in the outskirts of metropolitan Shanghai in Pudong, outfitted in face masks. The Linzhao Xincun metro station faced a massive…
Setting up Help Portrait in your city
Help Portrait Shanghai Dec 7, 2013. Get involved here. In my time photographing for the blog, one of the most fulfilling actions have been gifting portraits to my…
My pick of Shanghai’s cafes: A SPRMRKT collaboration
In addition to my current exhibit “Bazaars of Kyrgyzstan” at SPRMRKT which runs through to September, I wanted to share a little about a creative collaboration I did with SPRMRKT’s…
An evening with Liu Heung Shing on 23 July
Photographer: Liu Heung Shing Some of you may know that I double-hat as an organizer of a policy-oriented speaker series for Young China Watchers here in Shanghai. I’ve very…
“Bazaars of Kyrygzstan” exhibit in Singapore 12JUL
If you’re in Singapore this Friday, 12 July at 6pm, and fancy a tipple while listening me drone on about Central Asia, come on down to SPRMRKT (2 McCallum…
On the road in Kyrgyzstan (part 2)
Months ago, I answered a call from a most unexpected person. “Who is this?” I inquired snappishly, assuming it to be yet another sales call interrupting my evening….
June 26: China’s Changing Megacities
[Note 17May 2013: You can learn more about the policy-oriented speaker series at Hopkins China Forum and about the group Young China Watchers.] As part of the monthly…
Cradles of Civilization in Uzbekistan
I returned from Uzbekistan a little over a week ago with a nasty bug. It was likely from the few days I spent in Bukhara where the dry desert…
Suzhou Literary Festival Roundup
This past weekend was spent in the very lovely Suzhuo at the Bookworm bookstore, partaking in the Suzhou Literary Festival activities. I especially want to thank everyone who…