Two awards and one honorable mention were given to Chinese photographers at this year's World Press Photo competition, a contest designed to highlight the achievements of photojournalism around the world. Considering all the news that happened in 2011, there was certainly some stiff competition. more ›

Pete Mignin, a roommate's sister's boyfriend's friend from LA who kept us waiting in a lobby while one anxious evening out several weeks ago (the free-flow beer hour was beginning, and the man was keeping us waiting), is the gifted photographer who created this lovely clip of images from his first ever trip to China. more ›

Baixiaoci (白小刺), whose real name is Shen Xiaoming (沈晓明) is a photographer from Zhejiang who has made a name for himself in the last year for his portraits of government buildings around China. From 2005 to 2006, China witnessed the biggest surge in the construction of government building, many of which are located in the new development zones. Such buildings have become the key strategy for the new zones to draw economy and draw investments, he says. The political symbolism comes of these buildings come in the second place. more ›

Get your hipster-artist outfit ready! DADA is hosting the 9th edition of Shanghai Photographer Night tonight, a group exhibition featuring work by Lei Gong, Patrick Wack, Chad Ingraham, Eric Leleu, and Matthieu Belin. more ›

The 2011 Rugby World Cup is here. Well, it's not here here, but for the whole duration, from Sep 9 to Oct 23, it will be screened live from Middle Earth New Zealand at plenty of places around Shanghai (some listed below, but see more here.) And great news for fashionistas this Saturday midnight - Vogue's Fashion Night Out is in Shanghai for the first time! And if you can bust a move, head on over to the Freshest Kids Dance Battle on Sunday. And if that's not enough, head over to our calendar for more! more ›

Photography enthusiasts, listen up! This Saturday, a special one-day street photography event put together by the one and only Sue Anne Tay of Shanghai Street Stories is happening at the Dutch Design Workspace -- and she promises it will be "absolutely fantastic". more ›

Many of you, like us, might have slept through spectacular electrical storm that passed through Shanghai around 1:30am last night. Here's what you missed, courtesy of local night owl photographers on Weibo. Special kudos to @席子-上海 for catching the Pearl Tower shot! more ›

"Designed for press photographers by press photographers", The Press Photographer's Year is a competition among UK news media that recognizes and showcases press photography. This year, two winners for digital film and multimedia are China-based press photographers Sean Gallagher and Dan Chung, with reporting by Tania Branigan. Adam Dean, now a Beijing-based photographer, also won first prize for his photo essay covering troops in Afghanistan last year (see those here.) Definitely take a minute (if you have a VPN) to watch the very beautifully crafted videos below. more ›

Artist Liu Bolin is back with more of his famous "invisible" photos which are on show now at the Galerie Paris-Beijing. For his 19 new self portraits Liu posed in front of several international icons such as the American flag, Beijing's Olympic Bird nest, and a Venetian canal.
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BEAN is calling all eagle-eyed photographic bounty-hunters in Shanghai to team up for the Great Shanghai Photo Scavenger Hunt. All you need to join is some kind of photography device and two or three friends. more ›

If you missed out on the 8th Shanghai Photographer Night that happened at Dada you can play a little catch up now. Here's three of the six videos that played that night--each participating photographer was asked to put their work into a slideshow with music. more ›

Recently plagued by corruption scandals and constantly overshadowed by completion deadlines, it certainly is easy to forget about the living force propelling China's high-speed rail network forward. We are witnessing the second-largest public works program in history, after the interstate system in America, and the human aspect is all but lost when thinking in numbers like one trillion RMB and 120,000 km.Thanks to Youth Times (年青时报) photographer Wang Xinke, one part of this process, the Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed rail link completed in October of 2010, has been recorded for posterity. more ›

Photographer Guang Niu of Getty Images won second prize in the General News Singles with her photo of Qinghai earthquake victims being gathered for cremation. more ›

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Photos by Jeremy Breningstall. more ›

Nice work by the awesome guys from NeochaEDGE in collaboration with Absolut Vodka. Reminds us of this other video:
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Completed in September 29, 2010 and decked out in rainbow colours just in time for the 2010 Asian Games, the RMB3 billion Canton Tower is currently the world's tallest tower and also the tallest structure in China (yes, it's even taller than the Shanghai WFC!). more ›

This past weekend, a group of photographers from the Shanghai Flickr Meetup came together to participate in Help Portrait. Help Portrait (http://help-portrait.com) was first started in the with the idea for photographers to give back to their local community through their equipment and skills. It has since bloomed into a global movement that spans across all the continents, from across the USA to Milan, Tokyo, UAE, Malaysia and Australia. more ›

These are just several of a beautiful series of photographs by up-and-comer Fan Shishan, featured on NeochaEDGE. The series, called “2 of Us” “characterizes the effects of China’s one-child policy on the identity formation of young Chinese people,” focusing mainly on their creation of “alter-egos” to substitute for the siblings they never had. It is well worth a look - the rest of the pictures and an interview with Fan are on NeochaEDGE. more ›

If you’re able to drag yourself away from the Asian Games on your teevee at home (I’m assuming you all tuned in yesterday for women’s judo, badminton tourneys, men’s chess, and of course “Latin Jive” dance-offs) then we’ve got you covered with our weekly list of whatever brouhaha is going down around town this Monday through Thursday. In the line-up this week: premature Christmas bazaars, another one of those neat Shanghai photography nights, a clown on a bicycle, and some free booze! more ›

Photographer Ouyang Xingkai treats us to this stunning series of photographs showing the remnants of an anachronistic lifestyle in increasingly modern China. Ouyang, a Hunanese himself took most of these pictures in the town of Hongjiang, Hunan. more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday to Thursday in Shanghai. On the schedule this week: Say "Tongzhi nihao" at the Shanghai PRIDE photo exhibition, dine with the Exorcist and split pea soup, and celebrate a few restaurant birthdays (bring on the freebies!) Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

Shanghai Street Stories blogger and erstwhile Shanghaiist contributor Sue Anne Tay will be exhibiting some of her marvelous photos in "Construct, Demolish, Repeat: Building the Shanghai Dream" at the Southern Barbarian: Lujiazui on Saturday. It'll be well worth a visit - not only will you see great photos by a talented photog who's been recently featured in The Atlantic and Foreign Policy, but there will be some free eats and drinks too! more ›

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Gabyu writes:

I first thought that this man was very sick, at his end of his life. He felt extremely happy, overjoyed by experiencing what he saw. After he went outside, he still felt very dizzy, tired but could not help himself laughing and smiling. At the end of my visit, half an hour later, I found him as you can see him on the picture.

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More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site (and here). more ›

More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site (and here). more ›