Archive - Far & Near

Issue #14: Minimize Harm: Covering Protests in China with Discretion and Empathy

Our urgent suggestions to visual journalists/editors working in/on China

Nov 29, 2022 •

Preserving ‘community fire’ in the age of e-commerce

Artist Zhang Xiao on his book documenting the transformation of a millennia-old tradition

Mar 21, 2024 •

#Issue 17: Create your own god + 'Still Young' seniors, and more

A variety of stories ranging from on-demand deities and the latest internet productivity hack.

Feb 16, 2023 •

Reconstructing Yuanmingyuan: confronting colonial history through recreated images

A conversation with photographer Shi Yangkun on the role of photography in colonial expansion and how his work aims to subvert it.

Feb 2, 2023 •

Issue #9: Lockdown, Normalized by Far & Near x Chaoyang Trap

Stories from the Shanghai lockdown: PCR test body horror + “Run P.R.C” + quarantine hotel pop-up concepts + Voices of April

Apr 29, 2022 •

Han Lilin: “Outrage is fueling my creativity, nonstop”

Issue #23: Chinese independent artist on woodcuts, feminism, and learning to speak out in turbulent times.

Jul 20, 2023 •

Issue #26: Life of Day Laborers in Beijing + Hexi Corridor Under Climate Challenges, and More

Dec 15, 2023 •

China’s workplace sexual harassment problem + paying tribute to Pema Tseden

Also in issue 21: how Douyin shapes rural Chinese architecture and more

May 25, 2023 •

Issue #27: 30 Years as a Day Laborer in China + Three Chinese Photographers’ Overseas Trips in 2023

Feb 2, 2024 •

#Issue 20: Digitizing the Chinese writing + Temporarily Censored Home, and More

Apr 6, 2023 •

Labor Issue, Part 2: Chinese doctors on Covid frontlines + the secret life of Mom’s beanies, and more

Also in this issue (#15), typologies of the “invisible” working class, and stories celebrating everyday creativity

Jan 19, 2023 •

Visual Stories on Labor from China: The Foxconn Exodus + Migrant in the Mood for Love + Lifetime in an Abandoned Mine

Issue #13: In this two-part series, we'll explore the topic of labor from reportage to personal essays.

Nov 25, 2022 •

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