One of my photographs from the amazingly ridiculous Kangbashi district in Ordos was featured in Conde Nast Traveler this past month. The building shown is the Ordos Museum designed by MAD architects, one of the preeminent Chinese architecture firms founded by Ma...
Sound Kapital Heads Down Under
I am getting onto a plane for Australia in a few hours. This is my first time heading down under - very excited. This Friday evening Carriageworks, a huge art and cultural center in Sydney, is going to present a program on my Sound Kapital project. I am giving a short...
Red China Rising: Bourgeoisie Tourism in the Communist Heartland
This is the second of a series of posts detailing the bourgeois practices of nouveau-riche, communist-heritage pilgrims who possess expectations and consumer desires that seem at odd with the core ideologies of the founding fathers of the Chinese Revolution. Armed...
Duck Fight Goose Releases Sports at D-22
I always like to brag about Beijing being the center of the music universe in China. It is rather hard to dispute. The only band that throws a wrench in my argument is Duck Fight Goose. Hailing from Shanghai, they are one of the best bands in China, hands down. Their...
Happy Magic Water Park in National Geographic
It is with great pleasure to announce that a photograph from the Happy Magic Water Park series is in this month's issue of National Geographic. I have been meeting with editors at the renowned magazine for over a year, and although it's just a double-page spread,...
Domus Mixtapes: The Sound of Beijing
I just completed a Domus Mixtape for Beijing. You can hear it over at Domus or on SoundCloud. I drew exclusively from Maybe Mars and Modern Sky for the music as well as a live recording of Zhang Shouwang/张守望 of White+ and Carsick Cars fame. There is a lot more music...
Ai Weiwei/艾未未 Marches On – Portraits for Foreign Policy
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting Ai Weiwei in his studio to take portraits for Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers list where he appeared at #18 in the rankings. He was very amiable and open to me directing him about his compound where I posed him...
Vice in Beijing: The Creators Project Returns to UCCA
The Creators Project is one of the best live multimedia events to come to Beijing. Curated by Vice through an unlikely Intel partnership, this year's second installment took over UCCA with massive art installations along with an evening of performances from an...
“What If the China Bubble Bursts?” – An Empty Chinese Metropolis in Time Magazine
I'm sorry I'm so late with posting these clippings, but I have been traveling a lot recently. Last month Time Magazine featured my photographs from The Ordos Real Estate Bubble: An Empty Chinese Metropolis series in a piece on China's precarious real estate market....
Selling Out History: China’s National Museum of Luxury
After a four-year, $380 million refurbishment, the National Museum of China finally opened its doors to the public as the largest exhibition space on the planet, beating out both the Louvre in Paris and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Even though now touted as one of...