Speaking on a hot evening at the Frontline Club in Paddington, London, the North Korean defector told me and a room of other interested parties how she had left her homeland, almost by accident, and spent seven years hiding on the mainland before making it to South Korea.
Read More PortfolioAli Mohamed Ali, the Hong Kong government’s official – and only – Somali translator not only provides a voice for new refugee arrivals in the city. He also is also the first Somali to have been awarded a Home Return Permit from the Chinese government.
Read More PortfolioSingapore’s modern identity is that of a single diamond-shaped island. But in reality it is comprised of 63 islets, which had been home to indigenous Malay communities for hundreds of years. From the 1960s on, however, residents of the idyllic southern islands were forced out of their fishing villages and into high rises. Many are still grieving […]
Read More PortfolioIranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who was sentenced to death aged 17 (that decision was, thankfully, later reversed), sat down to talk to me about surviving multiple assassination attempts, making the film ‘Kandahar’ to educate the world about Afghanistan, and sharing a prison cell in Iran with the now-Supreme Leader’s brother. http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1761575/why-i-tried-kill-shah-iran-filmmaker-mohsen-makhmalbaf
Read More PortfolioIn November 2014, I went to Zambia and Zimbabwe to visit a new wave of Chinese hotels opening around the stunning Victoria Falls. The Chinese in Zambia have long stood accused of profiteering from the copper-rich nation. Now, it seems, Chinese entrepreneurs are diversifying their wealth and investing in tourism, building hotels that are attracting Chinese […]
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Read More PortfolioIn the first six months of 2014, I researched the growing trend for African men marrying Chinese wives in Guangzhou, and start mixed families. The project involved attending underground churches, late night hip hop concerts, integrated kindergartens, many wholesale wharehouses and connecting with the unofficial General Consulates each African community appoints. I found African […]
Read More PortfolioMeet the women who put “mermaid” as occupation on their visa applications. http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1494380/hot-spots-philippine-mermaid-swimming-academy-boracay
Read More PortfolioPost Magazine interview with Barack Obama’s half brother Mark Okoth Ndesandjo Obama in his adopted hometown of Shenzhen.
Read More PortfolioIn 2010, Brandon Stanton quit his job to photograph every New Yorker in the city. His street photography census, HONY, went viral and has been copied the world over, from Tehran to Texas. Recently, the craze made it to Hong Kong.
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