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After Modernism

Let’s take a break from Cold War ruins and check out these abandoned factories from the post-socialist era.

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Portable and Precarious

In the latest issue of Radical History Review that focuses on Photography and Work, my extended photo-essay, “Portable and Precarious: Life and Spectacle in China’s Construction Camps,” explores the...

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Theater of War

My solo exhibtion The Theater of War will open on December 1 as part of the 2018 Lianzhou Foto Festival. The exhibition draws on my ongoing investigation of the relation between aesthetics and...

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Lianzhou Update

Le Monde, the Paris-based daily, reports on the censorship problems in this year’s Lianzhou Foto Festival. They estimiate that at least 10% of the approximately 2,000 photographs were censored in the...

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The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life welcomes you to the new year of living even more dangerously, as we are locked in a path of 1.5°C warming, economic disparity, political division, and rising nationalism.

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Aesthetics of Resistance

Is it possible to develop an aesthetics of resistance in a world that is dominated by spectacles sanctioned by the state and capital?

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Moving Images, Moving People

Posters for my upcoming exhibition in this year’s Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and the related talk + roundtable event.

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Moving Images @ Contact 2019

My exibition Moving Images, Moving People is now on view @ 401 Richmond as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. This is also the first exhibition of this body of work after more than 4...

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Lishui Photography Festival

My ongoing global Cold War series called Bifucated and Parallel Histories was invited to participate in China’s biannual Lishui Photography Festival in November 2019. Although the first exhibition of...

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The Zone in History

Have you been to the zone yet? As a fan of Andrei Tarkovsky, especially his occult 1979 Stalker, my answer is a definite YES. In fact, in the past decade, I have visited the zone metaphorically,...

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