Mark Leong Photography

Jingdezhen, China. Ceramicist makes tea vessels (for National Geographic)

Seoul, South Korea. Dongdaemun Design Plaza, designed by Zaha Hadid and Korean architecture studio Samoo (for Smithsonian)

St. Louis, USA. Child gets tested before medical imaging procedure (for Siemens)

Beijing, China. Interview with Cai Hongbin, Dean of Guanghua School of Management at Peking University (for Fortune)

Fuling, China. College student studies English (for Time)

Beijing, China. Basketball star Yao Ming (for The New Yorker) and Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing (for American Way)

Beijing, China. Tim Cook visits bike-sharing company OFO (for Apple)

San Francisco, USA. Couple enjoys city view from Twin Peaks (for Harper’s)

Nagaland, India. Slash-and-burn agriculture, clearing away forest growth (for National Geographic)

East Palo Alto, USA. Member of Churrobots Robotics Team 9048 cleans out part of a swerve drive mechanism for assembly

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Nomad children (for National Geographic)

Cheonan, South Korea. EveR, a lifelike female android with speech recognition, voice synthesis and gesture expression technology (for Smithsonian)

Beijing, China. Peiping Machine Brewery (for Fortune)

Tianjin, China. Apple Store (for Apple)

Hong Kong. Sham Shui Po is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the territory, with small businesses on the ground floors and low income apartments above (for National Geographic)

Oakland, USA. Unhoused family living in a broken down mobile home (for National Geographic Society)

Berkeley, USA. Members of Berkeley High School Team 5419 Berkelium do some tests on an early prototype

Gdansk, Poland. Employee recruitment campaign (for Intel)

San Francisco, USA. FIRST Robotic Competition has become an international institution. Each team is numbered — the numbers are now approaching 10,000. In the US, some 70,000 students are involved.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Sumo school for young wrestlers - a number of Japan’s recent top champions have come Mongolia (for National Geographic)

Beijing, China. Grafted tree branches

Mountain View, USA. High school Science Olympiad team member tests her airplane

Guangxi, China. Dong minority woman's hand is dyed blue from working with traditional cloth in vats of indigo (for National Geographic)

Hong Kong. Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation main headquarters (for National Geographic)

Berkeley, USA. Chemistry competitor at Golden Gate Science Olympiad

Fremont, USA. Behind-the-scenes at Boehringer Ingelheim commercial shoot at pharmaceutical plant (for Boehringer Ingelheim)

Seoul, South Korea. Schoolgirls in traditional hanbok costume (for Smithsonian)

Inner Mongolia, China. Urban refugees Da Fei and Lao Dai roam the grasslands on their motorcycles (for National Geographic)

Bengaluru, India. iPhone assembly plant worker (for Apple)

Shanghai, China. Workers construct pilings for an elevated highway (for Wired).

Seoul, South Korea. End of the work day (for Inc.)

BERKELEY - JUN 30: 2021 Tesla Model Y, equipped with FSD system.

Foshan, China. Stephon Marbury (for GQ). Beijing, China. Sean Mahoney, Chairman of Intel China (for Fortune); Frito-Lay potato warehouse (for Frito-Lay); Select youth hockey team (for National Geographic)

Beijing, China. NICU nurse and newborn baby (for Johnson & Johnson)

Beijing, China. Skaters (from China Obscura)

San Francisco, USA. Participants in 10,000 Degrees financial literacy program for high schoolers (for Goldman Sachs)

Yokohama, Japan. Automotive aerodynamics engineer (for Nissan/Infiniti)

Berkeley, USA. Activist Suzi Garner installs the letters WDWG (for Where Do We Go) by a freeway exit encampment, in support of the unhoused residents (for National Geographic Society)

Dongguan, China. One of the world’s largest shirt factories (for Fortune)

San Francisco, USA. Robotics team members cheer for their teammates and their machine at regional tournament

Beijing, China. Outskirts

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Gdansk, Poland; Haifa, Israel. Global worker recruiting campaign (for Intel)

Xinjiang, China. Harrison Liu films his character’s death scene in the action movie Warriors of Heaven and Earth (for The New Yorker)

Shanghai, China. Design student babysits her boyfriend’s son during band practice (for National Geographic)