Journal
Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou: China beyond the headlines
Seventeen days over New Year in Shanghai, Chongqing and Hangzhou: huge cities, a hotpot that made our Chinese friend cry, and people kinder than the headlines.
Kazakhstan, from the Caspian to the mountains
Nearly three weeks across Kazakhstan, from the salt plateaus of Mangystau to Almaty's Soviet concrete and the Tian Shan, with strangers who offered us watermelon.
One day in Tossa de Mar
A day trip from Barcelona to Tossa de Mar: a calm beach under the medieval walls, a rough shore on the other side, and pines on the cliffs until dusk.
Brutalism in Almaty: concrete under a black sky
Soviet modernism and brutalism in Almaty, shot in black and white to look like infrared: rounded balconies, concrete lattices, a building like a face.
Living KZ market: inside Almaty's Green Bazaar
Almaty's Green Bazaar at golden hour: sun through the skylights onto dried fruit, spices and the meat hall, and a lamb laid out like a still life.
Chongqing lights: spice, neon and stairs in the cyberpunk city
Five days in Chongqing, the cyberpunk city of southwest China: stairs instead of streets, neon on every facade, red bridges and chillies at the hotpot doors.
1933 Old Millfun: the silent slaughterhouse
Shanghai's 1933 slaughterhouse, now an empty concrete labyrinth of ramps, bridges and stairs, photographed in high-contrast black and white.
Shanghai by night: lanterns, LEDs and steaming skewers
Shanghai on winter nights: an underground food court steaming with skewers, lanterns over the temple crowd, painted birds in paper cages and a last neon.
Shanghai by day, between concrete and history
Shanghai by day, from the riverside crane and concrete to Jing'an Temple and the canals of Qibao: old temples standing alongside the modern towers.
Matcha lake: a forest standing in green water
A forest standing in Qingshan Reservoir near Hangzhou, its needles copper in January and the water matcha green with duckweed, black swans between the trunks.
