A Look at Tang Ying: 8th Shanghai Photographer Night
Have you marked the upcoming 8th Shanghai Photographer’s Night in your calender? It’s 13 April, 8pm at Dada Bar where Shanghai’s best street photographers will be featuring their…
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13 April: 8th Shanghai Photographer Night
This and early next week is all about street photography. Come next Wednesday, April 13th, I will be part of a street photography show at Dada Bar in…
The Anatomy of My Blog: An Amateur’s Tale (and Tips!)
(Feel free to skip this post if blog housekeeping bores you. This is all about how to set up and deal with self-hosted sites.) You might have noticed…
Book giveaway! and last minute Lit Fests details
Update: The book giveaway ends today on Wed (16MAR) at 23:00 Shanghai time/ 15:00 GMT. So leave a comment for a chance to win a copy! We have a…
The Roving Exhibit: Travelling and An Ode to the City
Carrying my photo boards, I trudged across the barren land of a long-demolished Dongjiadu (董家渡）on my way to Wangjiamatou Lu (王家码头路). Amongst rubble and weeds, I didn’t feel…
Speaking at the Shanghai and Suzhou Literary Festivals, March 12-13
If someone told me a year ago that I would be speaking at the Shanghai and Suzhou Literary Festivals, I’d go ha! and then double ha! But now…
26 FEB: Amy Sommer’s talk and my photography for Royal Asiatic Society
This coming Saturday, Amy Sommers will be giving a talk about the state of Shanghai’s pre-War residential housing market, the entangled and complex problems relating to ownership and…
The Roving Exhibit: Dongjiadu
“Oei, boy!” The uncle motioned for the boy of about 10 who had the attention span of a gnat. “Didn’t you go to school with this kid?” The boy…
The Roving Exhibit: Anguo Lu
My first patron hovered quietly at first, peering over my shoulder as I set up my photo boards. Timidly, she asked if I had taken the photographs. I…
Introducing The Roving Exhibit
It has been more than a month and a half since I embarked on what I have titled Shanghai Street Stories: The Roving Exhibit. I have refrained from…