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Lunch escapade.
One of the reasons I choosed to live in Beijing is because there are many parks in the city. No matter which part of Beijing you are, there is always a park not too far. Chinese people go to parks for all sorts of activities; morning tai qi exercises,...
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Petit Lapin Chinois.
The only time of the year i wish I were deaf is during the Chinese New Year celebration in Beijing. Firecrackers are part of my love/hate relationship with China. During the Chinese New Year celebration, families and friends buy stacks of firecrackers...
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What can you do in 24h?
Since the beginning of the MA, one of the biggest challenges I had to overcome was the 24h assignment where I had to produce a video, a podcast, a slideshow of 10 pictures and a 300 word article during the intensive workshop. The assignment turned out...
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Belated Halloween in the Outskirts of Beijing
Somewhere in Songzhuang district located in the 6th ring road of Beijing ... an armless mannequin is watching you. She appears in the midst of the fog... She is one of the many mannequin that an old man is displaying in his backyard. A 60 year old man...
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Exploring Zhongshan with my dad
Last March, I paid my dad a visit in Zhongshan, he happened to be in China for a month. To get to Zhongshan, I first flew from Beijing to Guangzhou on a 3-hour flight, and then I took the bus, adding another 2 hours to my journey. When I told my friends...
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Treasured Trash
Treasured Trash is the first multimedia piece that we have been produced in partnership with a local media partner. i was assigned to do it in group with the Beijing Times. To watch the final video, click here: link Beijing times is a local newspaper...
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Beijing Modern Sky Festival 2010
From October 2 to 4, the Modern Sky Festival was held at Beijing's Haidian Park.Seventy-eight musicians and bands performed on four stages, namely the Modern Stage, the Sky Stage, the Badhead Stage and the Electronic Stage. Chinese musicians like Xie...
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Mon Bel Oranger
IOPF Orange festival is an international photography festival organized by Changsha government and Changsha Evening News Group. It was held from oct 22 to oct 29 on the orange inland island of the city of Changsha located in the Hunan province of China....
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Projects
Visual stories, Photo and Video Currently based in Beijing and available for freelance projects. Born in Paris from Chinese parents, themselves born in Laos then were kicked off from their own country to end up in France. I grew up in a small suburb of...
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Inside China's High Speed Train
China's high speed train has changed the life of many Chinese people, including mine. What used to take 16 to 20 hours with a regular train, now only takes 3 to 4 hours by high speed train. Beijing brand new South train station now looks like the inside...
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Transit Places.
Once a friend of mine asked me where the great spots for taking photos were in Beijing (besides all touristic places). I realized that I've never asked myself this question ever since I got in Beijing. Then I thought about it and I went through my photos,...
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Pop Corn Cinema vs. Culture Cinema
One of the thing that I miss the most from France living in China for almost 4 years now, is the possibility to go to the movie theatre and to be able to watch any movies in my native language. In China, most of the movies screened are of course in Chinese,...
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Paris - Beijing : Reverse Migration
Being born in France and being ethnically Chinese, French people would always ask me where I was from. My answer was France. Until my twenties I never really felt the need to know more about China. China was just an abstract concept for me, and being...
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The shot that made my day.
Photography is what usually relaxes me. I like going out and just taking some street photography BUT carrying my camera all day and compulsively shooting all day is not always fun. Most of the time, you end up taking 400+ pictures of what I call 'nothing',...
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A boys band raised up the temperature in Changsha, China
Fei Lun Hai! Fei Lun Hai! I was desperately looking for a story in Changsha, Hunan Province, and didn't want to do a story about the Orange photography festival which was taken place in the city. So on my way to get a cab to go downtown, I saw hundreds...
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Ma Ayi Bien Aimee*
*My lovely Ayi Ayi - is a term that Chinese people use to refer to their housekeeper View the multimedia here:link The first time I arrived in Beijing, most of the people I met always talked about their ayi, they would either complain about her, or overly...
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My First Video Project: Jefferson
For this week's assignment, we had to shoot a story using only video. It was a big challenge for me because I've never done any video before and even though there are some similarities with photography. I still think that shooting with video is a different...
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The shot that made my day.
Photography is what usually relaxes me. I like going out and just taking some street photography BUT carrying my camera all day and compulsively shooting all day is not always fun. Most of the time, you end up taking 400+ pictures of what I call 'nothing',...
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Mrs Li and her book
This is Mrs Li, she has been working with her husband as recyclers in Beijing for over 3 years now. They collect cardboards, papers, books, plastic bottles and any pieces of furniture people want to get rid of. As I was walking in my neighborhood, I saw...
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Double Skin
We all have two sides in our personality; a rough side to show to the society, and a softer one which we like to keep hidden. Katun, German/Chinese is member of a scooter club called the Expendables (Link: sc-expendables.com), the club was created in...
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Street photo booth
During the intensive, Adam Dean came to class and shared his experience as a photojournalist with us. He is also a former student from the MA I am currently preparing. His works have been published in the leading world news publications including Time,...
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Returnee Documentary: Nationalities playing on the soccer field
On a gorgeous day in Beijing, I followed Katun, German/Chinese for my project. On top of having a passion for the guitar, he also is passionate about soccer playing. He created his own team called the Expendables. He regularly plays on the week end at...
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Stop breathing in Beijing
A couple of mornings ago I left home to go to work and realized that I had forgot my anti-pollution mask, so I walked back, got it and put it on. I make sure it is placed safely and tightly on my nose and mouth. I'm all set and ready to be bathed in that...
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'Returnee' Documentary Project
What to talk about? When I started to brainstorm for the topic of my MA final year project , I started to list all the topics which might be interesting, I thought about a documentary about women and beauty; how Chinese women in China are showing an increasing...
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A new place is not a new home.
I spent my evening with Fuling Wang, Italian/Chinese or should I say Chinese/Italian since she was born in Dalian, China, and moved to Milan when she was 6. Fuling was raised in Milan, studied there and moved to Beijing about 6 months ago, she felt the...