[ChinaGate] This is a “Family Portrait” of China’s 56 ethnic groups. Chen Haiwen, a photographer, recently lead a team of 14 photographers to create a book entitled, “Harmonious China: A Sketch of China’s 56 Ethnicities.” The team spent one year travelling all over China to complete the project. They ended up taking over 5.7 million photographs.

Thanks Mike, Helena, and Diana!

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The word “Loneliness” (寂寞: Jimo) became really popular on the Chinese Internet this year. Especially the phrase “What XXX is XXing is not XXX, it is loneliness” for example “What brother is smoking are not cigarettes, it is loneliness.” “What I am posting here is not a post, it is loneliness” “What I am breathing is not air, it is loneliness”… How did this phrase become popular? One saying has it, in July of this year someone posted a picture of man eating noodles with this sentence “What brother is eating are not noodles, it is loneliness” on Baidu Teiba, soon it spread like a virus just like “Jia Junpeng, go home to eat”, netizens imitated and began a wide variety of loneliness Kuso.

The use of “brother” is generally referring to a “man”, “guy” or a reference to oneself. It is worth noting that the phrase “Don’t be obsessed with brother, brother is only a legend.” is also quite popular now days.

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(picture: A polluted eggplant)

[Southern Metropolis Daily] In July and August of this year, the Hunan Liuyang cadmium pollution incident caused nationwide concerns. It has been three to months since the incident, chemical plant was permanently closed, the relevant officials were suspended from their positions and affected farmers also received a certain amount of compensation. Recently the photographer went back to Liuyang, to some of the affected areas and shot a set of portraits for the crops. These terminally ill fruits and vegetables tell us the disaster has not yet ended.

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President Obama’s China visit has ended on Nov 18^th, but he left the Chinese people with this funny picture taken during his welcome banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this picture perhaps it is Obama’s expression that is worth a thousand words. This picture supposedly was posted on the front page of the “Culture Report” newspaper (新文化报) on Nov 18. (But the front page picture on the electronic version was already changed)

Immediately, this photo, spreading through the Chinese BBS sparked many netizens creativity and comical talents. A comedy skit script was written inspired by this photo. The story of Obama meets this young Chinese girl, it turns out that she is the daughter of a woman (the waitress in the picture) he met 10 years ago in China…

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On October 21^st 2009 I posted “Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China” featuring the winner of W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, Lu Guang’s documentary project “Pollution in China”. This post was an instant sensation that attracted viewers from all over the world. In less than 20 days, this post was viewed by over 475,000 unique visitors in 204 countries with over 510,000 page views. As for today it had 3,327 retweets on twitter and 929 comments. Thank you everyone! It was both surprising and inspiring to see how much people around the world cared about the pollution issues in China and the environment of the planet earth. And of course Lu Guang’s haunting photos were truly breathtaking. His artistic and insightful work of art exposed real urgent issues of people living at the bottom of the society in China, the side of China people of the world usually don’t get to see.

But how did Lu Guang take these photos? And what was his experience going to the polluted areas? Lu Guang shared some insights in an Interview with NetEease. The topic of the talk focused on what was behind those photos – the residents living in those polluted areas. As a photographer who directly contacted and interacted with these villagers, Lu Guang described how the villagers saw the pollution issues.

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[QQ] October 14, 2009, the 30^th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”

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