Images from Young and Abandoned selected for the China Youth exhibit at Feztiv Art Shanghai.

My series, Young and Abandoned, was selected for the Grand Prize at Feztiv Art this past Friday. The festival continues this week at Art+ Shanghai. My thanks go out to the jury for the festival included: Agnes Cohade, Co-founder and Gallery Director of Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Ana Gonzalez: Co-founder and Gallery Director of Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Diana Freundl: the art director of Art + Shanghai Gallery, , Sylvie Levey: Film Director in China, Luc Buono: Metersbonwe Asia Pacific Vice-President, Jean Loh: curator at Beaugeste Photo Gallery. Patrick Wack was awarded second place. There was also an amateur division featuring strong photography, but I don’t have the names of the winners names at hand, unfortunately.

As part of the grand prize, I will take part in an exhibition later this year and will receive a distribution contract with myfab.com. More details about those will be announced here as they become available.

I would also like to express my gratitude to the organizers of the festival, especially Marie-Christine Moreels and the rest of the French Junior Chamber International of Shanghai, and the staff and owners of Art+ for their tremendous generosity.

Men fish in the Yangtze River as barges pass by Chongqing, China. Increased river traffic and nearby manufacturing in the area has threatened the river's long-term ecology.

I’ve added quite a number of photos to the Recent Work section of my portfolio site, and I just realized that I hadn’t announced that here. There’s a lot to see from the past half a year. Take a look at:

• the streets of Pingliang in Gansu Province
• two hours spent in Chongqing
• the ranch operations behind Big Sky Montana Beef
• the dunes of the Gobi Desert
• outtakes from a Fader fashion shoot
• the Haerbin Snow and Ice Festival
• Butte, Montana’s Evel Knievel Days festival
• the streets of Shanghai
• hordes of tourists on the Great Wall at Badaling outside of Beijing
• some details of Washington, Idaho, and Montana
• the Lantern Festival in Haerbin
• the streets of Beijing
• more dogs than you’ve ever seen in one place at a no-kill rescue farm and shelter in China
• scenes from the Vietnam/China border in Yunnan Province
• the dried-up end of one of China’s early important railway lines
• the rice terraces of Yuanyang County in southern Yunnan Province

Duwei, drummer for the Nanjing-based punk band Overdose, rests in a park with friends before a gig at the small YuYinTang rock club in Shanghai, China.

I’m excited to announce that one of my prints, above, is on the block in Daniel Cooney’s iGavel Emerging Artists Auction. The reserve is US$200. The auction began Jan. 14, and will continue until Feb. 4.

About the gallery: “Daniel Cooney Fine Art opened it’s office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the emerging art district of New York City in August, 2003. In June of 2004 we relocated and opened a beautiful gallery in the Chelsea District of Manhattan at 511 West 25th Street, #506. Our goal is to make exceptional photographs and works on paper available to the collecting community. The gallery is committed to showing the absolute best in emerging art and under recognized work by established artists….[Daniel Cooney] began his gallery career at the James Danziger Gallery and continued as Associate Director of the Julie Saul Gallery. He was also the Director of Online Photographs at Sothebys.com. He has taken appraisal classes at NYU and is on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Photography in Woodstock.”