My project We Chinese was featured on the China-focused blog China Hush. My thanks to Key at China Hush and all the commenters on the blog for some good discussion on the project.

Mapping the Flâneur, including my contributions to the project, will be reshown as Re:Mapping the Flâneur at the Newcastle Arts Centre (67 Westgate Road, NE1 1SG) from 14th to 25th June 2011. This is a recuration of the project created by Wideyed and ASA Collective in cooperation with North East Photography Network. There will also be a private viewing of the exhibition to coincide with the Sunderland University’s international conference ‘The Versatile Image: Photography in the Era of Web 2.0’.

A couple of months ago, I submitted We Chinese to Burn Magazine for consideration for publication. I've submitted essays in the past, and never gotten a response, so I was quite pleased to hear that Burn would publish a selection of images and interviews from the project.

I was pleased to find that Forbes.com's ChinaTalk blog discussed my project We Chinese. In "China’s Super Rich Get All the Headlines," Ray Kwong discusses the problem of the media's fascination with China's growing luxury market and increasing wealth in the country, and the difficulty in learning about the average person on the street. This is one of the reasons I wanted to create We Chinese, and I'm happy to see that it has been communicated through the project. And I love his coining of "Zhou Blow" as the Chinese counterpart to the American "Joe Blow."

My long-term project China Everbright has been selected to be shown at Slideluck Potshow XVI at the New York Photo Festival this Saturday night, May 14, 2011, at St. Ann's Warehouse at 38 Water Street in Brooklyn, New York. The event runs from 5:30-10:30pm. There should be a huge crowd there--last year the event won the Guiness World Record for largest potluck dinner in history--and the selection of slideshows is a breathtaking, inspiring bunch. Whitney Johnson, the recently-named Director of Photography at The New Yorker, curated the show. I've reproduced the full list of participating photographers, which could double as a start to a list of my photographic idols, here: Alex Fradkin, Alex Webb, Benjamin Sklar, Bruce Gilden, Carolyn Drake, Chris Hondros, Dominic Bracco, Dominic Nahr, Elena Dorfman, James Pomerantz, JR, Krisanne Johnson, Iwan Baan, Landon Nordeman, Luca Zanier, Luis Ladron de Guevara, Lyle Owerko, M. Scott Brauer, M. Wesley Ham, Mari Bastashevski, Mark Peterson, Martin Usborne, Matt Eich, Melanie Burford, Michael Christopher Brown, Natasja Fourie, Peter DiCampo, Phillip Toledano, Platon, Rinko Kawauchi, Stefano de Luigi, Steve Pyke, Steven Brahms, and Tim Hetherington. I'm honored and humbled to have my work shown among such talented photographers. Tickets to the event are available for purchase here. If you're there, please say hello!