Wintertime
It's winter once again. This will be a cold winter for northern China. In Beijing, the temperature has already fallen below minus 10 degrees.
Minor Officials
I've been working on a couple of projects over the last few months. One of these is a photo-reportage on Beijing's migrant worker settlements. One of the big problems for a foreign photographer in China doing this kind of work
My Lucky Star
My knowledge of pop culture is poor, I admit with no shame; it’s never been good, in fact. So when I was asked to shoot the making of a movie starring one Zhang Ziyi and one Wang Leehom, I said
Blue Oceans Film Festival
The Blue Oceans Film Festival was recently on in the 'States, which is a great thing. But I have to say that I object (slightly) to the name “Blue Oceans”. Because it suggests that oceans only come in one colour.
Other Side of the Line
One of Asia's defining characteristics is contrast. My flat is in a new apartment block with a swimming pool, gym, and underground parking full of Audis and Mercedes. One hundred meters away, across the railway line, live some of Beijing's
Snowy Morning Time Lapse
My actual mission on the day was to get some time lapse footage in the snow. Since it had been a long but largely snowless winter, I was up first thing in the morning to capture it. This is a
Snowy Morning
Today in Beijing it is a typical hot and dusty summer's day with a forecast high of 37 degrees. It's hard to believe that just a month ago it was snowing, and I was out taking photographs by Houhai wearing
Cyclist
I am busy making movies. I have chosen timelapse as my medium, since the ideas I want to portray require something more four dimensional than a photograph, yet have to condense long periods of real time into a short period