Mark Leong Photography

Jingdezhen, China. Worker left his factory job in the city making iPad cases to return to his hometown to make ceramic teacups and bowls

San Francisco, California, USA. Couple enjoys city view from Twin Peaks

Mbale, Kenya. Mother and child, supported by mother-infant mobile health program managed by the World Health Organization

Fremont, California, USA. Behind-the-scenes during production of film for launch of drug Cyltezo by Boehringer Ingelheim

Seoul, South Korea. The Dongdaemun Design Plaza, also called the DDP, was designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Korean architecture studio Samoo

Bengaluru, India. Worker on iPhone assembly line

Beijing, China. Basketball star Yao Ming makes a surprise visit to a local playground

Berkeley, California, USA. Unhoused man, 40, nurses injured eye

Beijing, China. Apple CEO Tim Cook visits bicycle-sharing app company ofo

Inner Mongolia, China. Friends who used to skateboard and listen to reggae in northeastern industrial Shenyang spend much of the year in the Inner Mongolia grasslands, reversing the rural to urban direction for young Chinese

Mountain View, California, USA. Science Olympian tests her airplane in the high school gym

Berkeley, California, USA. Unhoused man living on a freeway cloverleaf

Beijing, China. At cosplay convention, young women on the right dress as Japanese anime characters while the woman on the left dresses as a Chinese goddess

Beijing, China. Neo-natal intensive care unit

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Sumo school for young wrestlers; three of Japan’s recent top champions have come from Mongolia

Shanghai, China. Workers construct pilings for an elevated highway

Mountain View, California, USA. Member of high school Science Olympiad team builds a lightweight balsa wood bridge intended to hold 15kg

Fremont, California, USA. Behind-the-scenes during production of film for launch of drug Cyltezo by Boehringer Ingelheim

Nagaland, India. Slash and burn agriculture

Beijing, China. Musicians live and play their instruments in a tiny rented alleyway room

Berkeley, California, USA. Chemistry competitor at the Golden Gate Science Olympiad

Shanghai, China. Urban explorers climb on high rooftops to take photos to post on Instagram. Both rooftopping and Instagram are banned in China.

Cheonan, South Korea. At Korea Institute of Industrial Technology one of the robotics projects is EveR, a lifelike female android with sophisticated speech recognition, voice synthesis and gesture expression technology

Berkeley, California, USA. Unhoused woman and her dog

Jilin, China. Seniors intending to go to grad school spend almost the entire year studying for the entrance exam instead of going to class

Berkeley, California, USA. Members of Berkeley High School robotics team test an early prototype of their competition robot

Beijing, China. Entrepreneurs run a vape shop

San Francisco, California, USA. Members of Ruth Asawa School of the Arts Robotics Team cheer during the SF Regional

Xinjiang, China. Actor films his character’s death scene in the action movie Warriors of Heaven and Earth

Beijing, China. High school hockey players preparing to go to the US to train with the Islanders; this three year program was cut short due to the pandemic

Oakland, California, USA. For many unhoused people, dogs offer both companionship and security

Berkeley, California, USA. Activist artist Suzi Garner installs the letters WDWG (for Where Do We Go) by the Ashby/Shellmound freeway exit encampment, in support of the unhoused residents of Berkeley and Emeryville

Davis, California, USA. Berkeley High School robotics team members ready for the playoff elimination rounds at the Sacramento Regionals of the First Robotics Competition

Hong Kong. On the rocks besides Aberdeen Harbour, families have placed figurines of Guan Yin (Kwun Yam), the goddess of mercy, to protect loved ones at sea

Shanghai, China. Design student babysits her boyfriend’s son during band practice