Little Monkey King
30 Dec
Any Chinese readers out there? I’ve seen the work of expats or foreign photojournalists in China, but I wouldn’t really know where to start with native Chinese photojournalists, but in a bit of luck, the first story in Zachary Mexico’s China Underground is about the self-made photojourno using the pseudonymn Maohair. Check out the link for an excerpt about his beginnings. He has a Chinese blog but you can see a few albums of his work at the top. The moniker on the blog is taken from one of my favorite stories, the episodic Journey to the West, where the Monkey King (as he’s known in the West for some reason) Wu Kong fights off all sorts of demons and monsters to help his master complete the quest to retrieve the sutras.
And on a different topic, it turns out Ansel Adams did some street?!
Check out Zhang Xiao, he lives in Shanxi province (i believe). He was a photojournalist for a Chongqing paper, but is now freelancing. He’s makes great pictures. His flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zhangxiaophoto/
His blog:
http://www.zhangxiaophoto.com
thanks,
Hannah
Oh, I didn’t think of him! I’ve seen his work before on the blogs, but never quite construed as photojournalism. I really like his pictures of opera people. Guess it’s not really a clear division, is it? Thanks for the reminder!