http://www.markleongphotography.com/mongolia daily 0.75 2025-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616394295526-912MR5B277B3V3770PJE/08-MM7848_100715_25260.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Ganaa (left) and his family pack up the ger to move to urban Ulaanbaatar after a hard zuud winter wiped out most of their sheep and goats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616394295526-912MR5B277B3V3770PJE/08-MM7848_100715_25260.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Ganaa (left) and his family pack up the ger to move to urban Ulaanbaatar after a hard zuud winter wiped out most of their sheep and goats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616394172824-V8I5VSXV9RMZPHIV8460/MM7848_100630_13716.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Fashion models and a traditional child acrobat await the arrival of the pop band Camerton at a concert at the APU vodka and beer factory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391909132-VTPJFOEU6FSAH9TXD68W/MM7848_100709_21196.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia The dirt track road from the grasslands of Altan Bulag to Ulaanbaatar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391985689-MTBN3M6KCF80GFOVJF1V/02-MM7848_100424_02062.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia More than half of Ulaanbaatar's 1.2 million people live in the ger districts that have formed as ex-herders have given up the nomadic life en masse to pitch their gers on the hills surrounding the city. These districts are little better than shantytowns, lacking running water or proper roads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391889188-64XYTXA9OG2DP9G9GJWP/MM7848_101013_39495.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Oyu Tolgoi copper gold mine under construction, digging tunnels 1.3 km below the South Gobi desert, will double Mongolia's GDP when it starts production https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391980876-71WI2JWFLBBSY29YYA4W/04-MM7848_100422_00871.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Over the past decade Ganaa, 27, and his family grew their herds to 1200 animals. Then after this past dzud ("winter disaster") wiped them out, they have 200 left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616393260141-5XP0K7EF65K2TNR2QS67/MM7848_100422_00509.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Baby goat, freeze dried by the harsh winter dzud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391951077-B9UGUBIGUEHSBU9RNZHE/MM7848_100427_02908.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Bat-erdene, who joined Ulaanbaatar's new generation of very wealthy via real estate development projects with his company Altai Construction, checks out his horses on a pre-Naadam training race just outside of town. His trainer and jockey are nomad kids. The Naadam horse races are important for the prestige of UB's upper business class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391929021-S9YRMSADE9SMRPJ1F3TV/MM7848_100627_10678.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia With temperatures spiking at 100 degrees F on a weekend, hundreds of city people head to the Tuul River to swim or cool off by the polluted water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616393887914-25WYSMI3REH5LXGYVKAI/MM7848_100430_05675.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia In their ger, Ganaa and his daughter watch a Beyonce video on an iPhone belonging to one of Ganaa's childhood friends who has made it big in the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616392528682-1ZJUQM7SGU49LOJM6F04/MM7848_100427_03173.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Sumo school for young wrestlers. Many are from the ger districts and they come with the idea that they can become sumo stars in Japan, where three of the recent top champions have come Mongolia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411794484111-63CM8DPADDDP01RBBGCU/20_MM7848_100712_24144.JPG Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391862280-HKZX71E7XC8DAOD0D6KS/MM7848_101213_47487.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Materials market https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616392643345-GZWNJJG1E0JUQERPZXKU/MM7848_101220_53633.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Altan Urag, alternative folk metal band, whose fiddles has replace traditional horseheads with death skulls based on the creatures from the Alien movies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616395149423-GJYB6EV0H1BG0T74883S/06-MM7848_101016_42672.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia The Mobile Police Patrols were introduced to UB in 2007 to increase police presence, gaining more control and order in the expanding city. The vast majority of arrests and violence stem from alcohol abuse. Another primary duty they perform is to rescue drunks passed out on the side of the road. If left there overnight in subfreezing temperatures, these men would die or have seriously damaged health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391845943-Q7DCHS3D952FM2HS71KT/MM7848_101217_49788+copy.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Coal burning power plant exhaust plus the smoke from individual ger fires leaves a thick yellow blanket of pollution over Ulaanbaatar in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391886657-P0H1MEUMMBQDQ72BKR90/MM7848_101011_37842.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Turu is an unemployed father with a 2 year old son, living with his parents. He was a Buddhist monk for 11 years before he want to tourism school. He is getting his tattoo, which he saw in a war movie, from a friend in exchange for doing some work on his apartment. Like a number of young Mongolians, he feels a kinship with the imagery of Nazi Germany and sees the swastika, originally appropriated from Buddhism, as a symbol of Mongolian nationalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616391867408-KPUBAS5T0ARE2IXGI0C3/MM7848_101015_41978.jpg Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Aftermath of a bar brawl between friends. Three have been removed to the drunk tank by the police while two remain, one man attending to his friend who has been bloodied and knocked unconscious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411794250938-WEJIQPCWCFKUJ2HXXSA5/19_MM7848_100701_15423.JPG Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Nomad Wave women's art collective perform part of an installation piece at the former summer residence of Bogd Khan, the last emperor of Mongolia. The linked sleeves of their garments represents unity and sisterhood, but also forms a ring of protection against the fear of the tiny Mongolia being lost in face of Chinese and Western globalization. http://www.markleongphotography.com/china-obscura daily 1.0 2023-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540153040-ROW2QLY6F0G90VAP6TCV/90shunde-honda.jpg China Obscura Shunde, 1990. In my father’s ancestral village, having a motorcycle meant the ability to seek more opportunities to do business or work on construction sites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540153040-ROW2QLY6F0G90VAP6TCV/90shunde-honda.jpg China Obscura Shunde, 1990. In my father’s ancestral village, having a motorcycle meant the ability to seek more opportunities to do business or work on construction sites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402368435-HWOVL9NMNE3CZR74P86X/89guangxi-pingpong.JPG China Obscura Guangxi, 1989. Ping pong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402415343-484W6XGHBFEDIY96V525/90shunde-honda.JPG China Obscura https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540180801-M94XP6KW7QJ0JB5TWIN3/90taishan-ancestorworship.jpg China Obscura Taishan, 1990. In the house built and left behind by my mother’s father, my cousin offers food, money and alcohol to the ancestors to let them know I have returned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402408498-82VGU6VN2B3FT4B44KSG/90shunde-shave.JPG China Obscura Shunde, 1990. Shave at the village barber shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540200609-7G7UMSLMAXQKIRXSNF9Z/93wanxian-coatA.jpg China Obscura Wanxian, 1993. On a bank of the Yangtze River, a child waits for their mother to finish washing their clothes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1421604444195-XZAYZT69RELES7Y6R5FR/03-90lijiang-chickenPRINT.jpg China Obscura Lijiang, 1990. Naxi minority women sell chickens and other farm items at a bus stop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402539946-OG3IPARGMBMYGK4E2HP9/95taishan-naigeung.JPG China Obscura Taishan, 1995. Fong Ny Geung, 83, my oldest living relative in China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402626418-YKW9JHT31T8PU3KFBYKB/98shenyang-mao27-25.JPG China Obscura Shenyang, 1998. Initiation ceremony for new traffic patrol members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402474761-GLF8PDFMAOIL8VSUXM5Y/92beijing-floatingXL+%E5%89%AF%E6%9C%AC.JPG China Obscura Beijing, 1992. Migrant workers, who float from city to city looking for work, sleep in the train station until they can find jobs as construction workers or security guards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540177849-UWK7SJ7XI0BC4YXR5QMK/89yangshuo-school.jpg China Obscura Yangshuo, 1989. Elementary school https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412403277991-A2UQFGV3DPGP1WO32ZDS/083-98shenyang-veil-coreana.jpg China Obscura Shenyang, 1998. A woman wears a veil to keep coal dust out of her face in one of the world’s most polluted cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412405588432-6YT6ILIIZZCSNUP38WLD/99beijing-losers.jpg China Obscura Beijing, 1998. Losers at the Beijing Welfare Lottery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540244970-6Q07ZQF8L6SKU81C0V1I/shanghai+scaffold.jpg China Obscura Shanghai, 1997. Workers construct pilings for an elevated highway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412405468017-GY0LDBXYIDQSMUZAF60J/03beijing-graves.jpg China Obscura Beijing, 2003. At the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, visitors pay their respects to the dead during the springtime Gravesweeping Festival by cleaning their memorial plaques and decorating them with flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412406590564-35L5IRP288WUGEYPFY3I/nanjing-wall.jpg China Obscura Nanjing, 2000. Ancient city wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402312252-CEHAKF1NEQ55SX2U8FNC/01shenzhen-armlessXL.JPG China Obscura Shenzhen, 2001. Dang Jianjun, twenty-one, lost both arms in a factory punch press accident on August 13, 1999, at around 2:00 a.m., eight hours into the overnight shift. Thirty-one such accidents a day happened that year in Shenzhen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540222782-BK368U9VB4IP6AV0B9FJ/97beijing-videoartist.jpg China Obscura Beijing, 1997. Documentary filmmaker Zhao Liang screens one of his experimental videos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412405622228-FQQ65E3Y6P958HXCCG8Q/065-98shenyang-poolhallFULL.jpg China Obscura Shenyang, 1998. Pool hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540259075-1F0CZBY6NETPTONGV32W/zhejiang-peepshow.jpg China Obscura Zhejiang, 1997. Tent peep show https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412405352673-QXRJWYOGDRK9F6MD3SIE/punksmoke.jpg China Obscura Beijing, 1998. Punk bandmates share a puff of hash smoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1421604290195-HN3RLIBO47FAFU17I34L/07_99beijing-skate.JPG China Obscura Beijing, 1999. A businessman with no knowledge of rollerblading brought a bunch of rural martial arts students to live in a Beijing skate park, giving them equipment and videos of Western bladers in hopes of developing an exhibition team to hire out for promotional events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412405603759-OIKH1SE0X1GKFFH6APKD/98beijing-poolside+copy.jpg China Obscura Beijing, 1998. Slackers hang out by a hotel pool, hoping to meet foreign women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402513997-ZTN654H9GBW7IGQDNLXF/92beijing-tangdynasty.JPG China Obscura Beijing, 1992. Plainclothes policeman monitors a show by the metal band Tang Dynasty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402623451-A8MCLA5LBOB1KGCQPC0R/98kunming-lollytrain.JPG China Obscura Yunnan, 1998. A couple in the hard sleeper compartment on a train from Beijing to Kunming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402360631-2QZMUIOZQHA5QH17WXV9/05lanzhou-maopowder.JPG China Obscura Lanzhou, 2002. A drug user breaks open small paper pods of heroin on a crisp 100 yuan note, where he sifts it before smoking . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540206074-RDL9AK3GS8CDYZ8JRGMR/96beijing-gun.jpg China Obscura Beijing, 1996. A traveling dealmaker shows the gun he carries to protect himself on the road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412402702319-TT2EPAF6XBBIJNYT80IF/99shenzhen-bride.JPG China Obscura Shenzhen, 1999. A young woman tries on a rented wedding dress at a photo studio. She is already married, but only now has she saved up enough money to have pictures taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616544128138-ZJ1GCVZKLSYW0H6L2PA1/harrison+liu+new.jpg China Obscura Xinjiang, 2002. Harrison Liu films his character’s death scene in the action movie Warriors of Heaven and Earth. http://www.markleongphotography.com/asian-wildlife-trade daily 0.75 2021-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719137610-0RH1O5V3UQ4C6B022YYS/67-GVA-LeonM-03.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Sumatera, Indonesia, 2007. At a reptile skinning operation in Sumatera, Indonesia, workers daily take hundreds of blood pythons and salvator monitors brought to them by local collectors, kill them with a blow to the head, fill the carcasses with water and air, and skin them for sale to the leather goods industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719137610-0RH1O5V3UQ4C6B022YYS/67-GVA-LeonM-03.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Sumatera, Indonesia, 2007. At a reptile skinning operation in Sumatera, Indonesia, workers daily take hundreds of blood pythons and salvator monitors brought to them by local collectors, kill them with a blow to the head, fill the carcasses with water and air, and skin them for sale to the leather goods industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1421596553318-VKT3RLKO5R83VAOA2KUV/MM7352_081031_32461.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Medan, Indonesia, 2008. On the road from Medan to Berastagi, a caged pig tailed macaque on sale for 700,000 rupiah (USD $72) outside a restaurant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719557648-9QVD5YGT7BX94K3Y8JIE/67-GVA-LeonM-17.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Lombok, Indonesia, 2008. At the morning fish market on the east side of Lombok Island, shark boats unload their catch to be immediately auctioned off. The meat stays in Indonesia but the fins and tails go on to clearing houses where dealers from China, HK and Taiwan buy in bulk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719794137-WOJWQ3LDO6MNWDPKTQ0U/67-GVA-LeonM-26.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Guilin, China, 2007. The Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Park, with over 400 bears and 1300 tigers in captivity, has animals perform incircus style shows daily. The park, with it's attached distillery, is lobbying for easing of regulations on China's 13 yr old tiger trade ban, especially with regards to tiger bone wine. Also, recently an DNA test showed that tiger meat was being served in the park restaurant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1629598556864-G29R9DFHRK5DLJR5HNP8/10-MM7352_080322_13103.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Bangkok, Thailand, 2008. During a raid of the Chatuchak market, police found one pet shop to be selling slow lorises literally under the table, behind the rabbits and kittens. An endangered primate, slow lorises are smuggled out to Japan, Russia and the United States as part of the illegal exotic pet trade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719389804-ROYAETFA286FKTAIVNG3/67-GVA-LeonM-13.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Beijing, China, 2008. Chen Jipin, 82, has been carving ivory since he was 13 years old as part of a Beijing, China studio. The dwindling supply of legal ivory (old stockpiles or poached material seized by African governments and auctioned to help fund conservation efforts), is moving this traditional craft underground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719816080-FDB2Z1S9ZJ7FO5JFLS5L/67-GVA-LeonM-28.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008. A collection of medicines claiming to contain wild animal ingredients (mostly tiger but some antelope, pangolin and others) gathered by the Kuala Lumpur office of wildlife trade monitoring organization Traffic. Most of these were acquired in Malaysia and of Chinese origin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1421597061770-31H69D4AP9BZWVWQ7MRL/07-67-GVA-LeonM-24.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Belum-Temenggor, Malaysia, 2008. Hunters illegally stalk the woods, mainly looking for protected muntjac deer, but ready to take opportunities as they present themselves. In the past they have sold the venison to urban restaurants and also taken pangolins to the market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719877267-A26XDM3R5YM86POAFQH4/67-GVA-LeonM-30.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Medan, Indonesia, 2008. Evidence room at the Ministry of Forestry's Police Rapid Reaction Force headquarters in Medan, with items confiscated over the past year: hawksbill sea turtles, chainsaws, antlers, pangolin skins, a stuffed tiger and a stuffed leopard. Live, fresh and frozen animals are stored elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1421596678821-DQXVDBMVT2BCIA5WKK32/MM7352_081112_36718.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Bakauheni Harbor, Indonesia, 2008. A plainclothes Seaport Police officer stops vehicles as he and his colleagues conduct inspections of vehicles heading towards the ferry from Sumatera to Java, searching for wildlife and animla products, as well as other types of contraband. This is a major transit point for the wildlife trade from the forests of Sumatera to Jakarta. Recently they have found birds, primates and pangolins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719285119-EJFE61UFOOIQMYHOTPZO/67-GVA-LeonM-05.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Jakarta, Indonesia, 2008. At Jatinegara Market, pet traders use pliers and a whetstone to clip and file the teeth of macaques before selling, to prevent them from biting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719289993-YFL1GAWOVMZI6GUTLY8Z/67-GVA-LeonM-04.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Guilin, China, 2007. The Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Park, with over 400 bears and 1300 tigers in captivity, has animals perform in circus-style shows daily. The park, with it's attached distillery, is lobbying for easing of regulations on China's 13 yr old tiger trade ban, especially with regards to tiger bone wine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1629598227700-2EHFMHEDYBB5QCPJW9IM/41-MM7352_081218_43569+crop.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Hanoi, Vietnam, 2008. A restaurant sells tonics made from boiling young pangolins in rice wine. It is supposed to help cure skin disease and promote cardiovascular fitness. Similarly bottled wild animals, including lizards and even small bears are common in throughout Vietnam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411719384695-ZX8HXMTSRP69MAPW70O6/67-GVA-LeonM-12.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Hanoi, Vietnam, 2008. Outside of urban Hanoi, dozens of bear "farms" line the Phuc Tho highway, keeping animals in small dark cages and bringing them out every few weeks to extract bile. A small ultrasound helps the bile dealers locate the gall blader. This bear was sedated,but that is not always the case. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1629504193834-G6MVUMZOHX1AV7LB8IYA/22-MM7352_080307_11216b.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade East Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2008. The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation trains orphaned orangutans in basic forest skills with the goal of eventually returning them to the wild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1421596288630-3VLDLIZB7IDZB6EREARJ/MM7352_081115_38133.jpg Asian Wildlife Trade Jakarta, Indonesia, 2008. Father takes his daughter to visit the Jatinegara bird and pet market, where primates, owls, hornbills, raptors, snakes, leopard cats and other CITES listed creatures are sold openly in the middle of urban Jakarta. http://www.markleongphotography.com/produce-and-consume daily 0.75 2021-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160859309-N9ATPN7H19K2G882OA9I/29_04beijing-makro.JPG Produce/Consume Beijing, 2004. The Dutch chain Makro opened one of the first warehouse shopping clubs in China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160859309-N9ATPN7H19K2G882OA9I/29_04beijing-makro.JPG Produce/Consume Beijing, 2004. The Dutch chain Makro opened one of the first warehouse shopping clubs in China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160475027-HI3PSNURPJMHMQA1K7HV/12_04beijing-drivein.JPG Produce/Consume Beijing, 2004. Drive-in movie theater audience watches “The Lord of the RIngs: The Return of the King,” one of twenty foreign films permitted to be screened per year in China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160828829-BGTZD3G6VH0YWCUHIWD7/26_03fuling-headphonesA.JPG Produce/Consume Fuling, 2003. College student listens to English instructional recordings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160965002-0QLB3ZLBII0JBFEH6ZA7/37-pollution_070130_014a.jpg Produce/Consume Ningxia, 2007. Workers salvage bricks near the coal burning government-run electrical plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517650042368-FLD5T5AF99NJLV3BRX4O/02-MM7359_060918_49176cropB.jpg Produce/Consume Yiwu, 2006. Refrigerator magnet dealer, one of tens of thousands of small one-room shops at the world’s largest wholesale mall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517651552691-8W7TY7ZS3P0P20HO9XJO/01_IMG_8171.jpg Produce/Consume Sanjiang, 2015. A Dong minority woman's hand is dyed blue from soaking traditional cloth in vats of indigo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517651324490-HGKKE623B4JQKBVVF5CB/13_shenzhenvillages_100123_01500+copy.jpg Produce/Consume Shenzhen, 2010. A one-room home in one of Shenzhen's many urban villages, where migrants gather and seek to settle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517654072324-N11KRJOL1D987J4E6IS2/06_containerport_070817_001.JPG Produce/Consume Hong Kong, 2004. Container port of China-manufactured goods headed overseas. Over time, shipping that almost all went through Hong Kong now goes out from mainland cities like Shanghai. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412410478674-Y4D8RP6LFRP7OKIFZY7H/04shanghai-bracespx.JPG Produce/Consume Shanghai, 2004. Thirteen year-old Gu Zhou Xin Yu's Gameboy cost his single mother over 1000 yuan. His dental braces cost her 9000 yuan in a country where, at the time, it was reported that a half a billion people never brushed their teeth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160440009-7ID8G8CYITKYQAZ221UU/07_shenzhenvillages_100214_7797.jpg Produce/Consume Shenzhen, 2010. Man decorates his home with a flowers he has salvaged from the grand opening of a nearby business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517651093260-3QCSUQ33OGXWHDAV6DJ2/04_05guangzhou-adidas02-60a+copy.JPG Produce/Consume Guangzhou, 2005. Adidas assembly line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160679392-HYX99W78WN65FXEJS6U7/05qinhuangdao-eroticphotog.jpg Produce/Consume Qinhuangdao, 2005. Photographer Zhang Xulong prepares model Liu Hui in a soft-core classical setting. Zhang has been hoping to someday to publish China’s first mainstream erotic photography magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160818404-JQGSNN3BE024Z2ZDFM16/04tianjin-fat5.jpg Produce/Consume Tianjin, 2004. Attendee of a growing number of Chinese weight-loss camps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517650217171-LPG6TVLAMRVTLCRRN6GU/63_shenzhenvillages_100123_01365.JPG Produce/Consume Shenzhen, 2010. Urban village migrant workers are still saving for their children's education, so they have very small basic tv sets, like this one showing an Indian soap opera dubbed into Mandarin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412409838144-MKG3PCTX0XHYQ65GUV3G/38PPLeong05shanxi-funeralsmoke.JPG Produce/Consume Shanxi, 2005. A young city woman, dressed in white for her grandmother’s rural village funeral, has a cigarette during a break in the mourning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517650127768-H442MFHO2X8XZQV0JZSY/38_65-20-LeonM-A-09.JPG Produce/Consume Lishui, 2005. A construction worker from Hunan Province sleeps on the floor together with his girlfriend who he met in their last stop on the boomtown circuit. They share this tiny unfurnished apartment that costs $20 a month with 4 other guys from Hunan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160763088-JGTWARKA2TA3YM3RXFDV/06shenyang-metaldetector.jpg Produce/Consume Shenyang, 2006. Armed with a metal detector, a salvager scours the rubble of the Shenyang Standard Parts Factory, a state-owned enterprise which was once China’s largest producer of nails, screws and other such hardware until it went bankrupt in the late 1990s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517653745129-ZF4ALCT9X9GWQMHCL8I0/shenzhenvillages_100124_01891.jpg Produce/Consume Shenzhen, 2010. Tan Yue hula hoops on her day off from the New Balance factory. Most of the women in the urban village, including her mother, are migrants from Sichuan who work on these sneaker assembly lines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412160501975-RVIPQ8D8VJJ3ZDFX6G8W/08_shenzhenvillages_100214_7261.jpg Produce/Consume Shenzhen, 2010. Unhoused man sleeps on the sidewalk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412409961480-6H0XP67B0CHI31YUTFQ4/04beijing-empties.jpg Produce/Consume Beijing, 2004. Late night empties at a dance club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1412406536627-8X6FZC9N6JB75TJNSKS5/03wushan-emeraldlake.jpg Produce/Consume Wushan, 2003. Emerald Lake, days before the Three Gorges Dam will go into operation and raise the water level over 125 meters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517651794745-JR0JWICFOG5U91GFWXJ1/shenzhenvillages_100212_4363B.jpg Produce/Consume Shenzhen, 2010. A girl uses little bits of dried cement to play jacks in the entryway of the multistory apartments next to her urban village. http://www.markleongphotography.com/hong-kong daily 0.75 2022-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411709739854-M1PJ5TIFY6UFTTZM7TAI/01_MM7972_110623_22223_41inch.jpg Hong Kong Under China The Mongkok district in Kowloon is one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the world, and is well known for its underworld-controlled nightlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411709739854-M1PJ5TIFY6UFTTZM7TAI/01_MM7972_110623_22223_41inch.jpg Hong Kong Under China The Mongkok district in Kowloon is one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the world, and is well known for its underworld-controlled nightlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411710033866-2J8OIPUC4CSQL3TQZH0F/15_MM7972_110609_17731b-57.JPG Hong Kong Under China The red focus sensor of a friend's camera lights the face of a wealthy man as he tries on a $6000 J12 Chromatic watch at a launch party for Chanel's new line of titanium ceramic timepieces. The mass influx of Chinese shoppers has bolstered HK's luxury market, but the local elite remain strong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517659979730-FS8PYY65L2KTA8QKBRD4/06_MM7972_111213_42074.JPG Hong Kong Under China Central District https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411709990044-21UV9LYSBOPSPF6CKD6A/14_MM7972_111211_39599.JPG Hong Kong Under China A forest of high-rises, mostly public housing projects, covers Kowloon, one of the world’s most crowded pieces of real estate. Despite Hong Kong’s glittery reputation, almost half of its seven million residents live in subsidized housing, with the real estate market pushing apartments beyond middle class affordability. Hong Kong's Gini Coefficient, which measures the gap between wealthy and poor, is the largest among highly developed nations and states. The gap has been widened by the influx of both low-income migrants and multi-millionaires from China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411709806496-FNSIRJJXOC394GNJYMDC/04_MM7972_111210_37744.jpg Hong Kong Under China Wong Tai Sin Temple, a Taoist place of worship known for fortune telling, is popular among Chinese tourists, who make up about 70 percent of the temple’s visitors. The day before the annual Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races at the Shatin Horse Track, the temple also draws in many gamblers seeking spiritual guidance to make winning bets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411709913219-OPR7L532IKZWWWXE99C5/11_MM7972_110605_13394+copy.jpg Hong Kong Under China Hong Kong employs about 300,000 migrant domestic workers, mostly from Indonesia and the Philippines. On Sundays—their only day off—they crowd the Central district and Victoria Park, where here some Indonesian women enjoy their day off under a highway overpass. Political organizers also use Sundays to rally these workers to fight for residency rights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411710045813-NT3GNS01ZGC8WH130WUV/13_MM7972_110621_20889_57b.JPG Hong Kong Under China Before Uber, a taxi driver has several extra mobile phones mounted on his dashboard, connecting him to various dispatching syndicates that book discount fares to undercut the traditional first-come-first-serve rule. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411709899893-UG83D6ZFYUI7Q4KA6KMP/07_MM7972_110227_01636B_41inch.jpg Hong Kong Under China A memorial in Victoria Park following the January 2, 2011, death of long-time political activist Szetoh Wah serves simultaneously as a democracy protest. "Uncle Wah" was a Hong Kong union leader and opponent of British colonial rule who became a vehement critic of the Chinese Communist Party after the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989. While young people in China barely know what happened then, the Tiananmen crackdown is considered a major part of Hong Kong’s political consciousness. Hong Kong’s demonstrators often think of the Tiananmen protestors and see themselves, as they face increasing restrictions on their freedoms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411709690130-NVLQGRL9ZCDS5YM29R1T/03_MM7972_111208_36331+copy.jpg Hong Kong Under China The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Company, headquartered in a 1986 Norman Foster-designed post-modern cathedral to capital, is arguably the most powerful corporate institution in the city. Hong Kong's traditionally dominant financial infrastructure continues to thrive as it serves the Chinese investors and institutions that contribute an ever-increasing share to Hong Kong’s wealth and business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411710085798-58Z2BF2P41Q3JKF1OTG2/16_MM7972_110627_24461-Edit.jpg Hong Kong Under China A former factory accountant from northeast China, J currently works in a legal one-woman/one-room brothel on Hong Kong Island. Over the last few years, she has saved enough to buy two apartments back on the mainland, and is now planning to buy another property in Hong Kong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517659479580-BM0FM4RMFFXUPL8RXHOI/08_MM7972_111207_35349+copy.JPG Hong Kong Under China https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517659354307-0LN5P1KSFSUSMYOBVRKN/02_MM7972_111217_47306.JPG Hong Kong Under China Industrial/residential street in Kowloon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411709787819-GC5VBH8PX7A1Z7OR5OSU/05_MM7972_111209_36928-1+85.JPG Hong Kong Under China This retired "red pole" enforcer for Sun Yee On parted ways with the triad peacefully several years ago, but still has the phoenix-tailed dragon tattoo hidden under his shirt. "Back in the old days," he says, "it was all about heart --about righteousness and virtue. Now it more of a business for profit." Gangster activity, though still present in Hong Kong, is decreasing as triads pursue more lucrative activities of varying degrees of legality across the border in China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411710033591-3UC8O9I39TWAKOAEYDZX/12_MM7972_111205_33138_41inch.jpg Hong Kong Under China Security cameras eye the traffic in Chungking Mansions, a 17-story hive of market stalls, restaurants, and cheap lodging where global traders do business. Indians, Nigerians, and Pakistanis all show up, buying made-in-China goods to sell back home. This block of grungy apartments has been called "the Ghetto at the Center of the World" by Gordon Matthews, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Matthews says that the phone dealers, curry shops, sex workers, flophouse travelers, asylum seekers, and others from over 130 different nations engage in a myriad of daily micro-exchanges that show real world globalization in action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411711883215-B592FWRKU19UUU39CKL8/19_MM7972_110603_12104.jpg Hong Kong Under China To commemorate the Tiananmen Square demonstrations 22 years earlier that ended in a bloody crackdown on June 4, 1989, a young artist has invited passers-by to cover him with notes of protest. Most of the messages were directed at the Chinese government and their handpicked Hong Kong leadership, and contained phrases such as “Free China,” “End Totalitarianism,” “Release Activists,” and “Don't Be a Slave—Remember June 4.” China's tolerance was wearing thin, but in 2011, the One Country/Two Systems policy still allowed freedom of expression in Hong Kong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517659854758-GZNKO6GVHEOJ34R2AS8H/09_MM7972_110625_23039.JPG Hong Kong Under China At Hong Kong Disneyland, the vast majority of park guest are visitors from China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411709868509-XR5GHEL18Y0KELYIXJ34/10_MM7972_111206_33653B_41inch+copy.jpg Hong Kong Under China Beat-up armchairs await residents of an informal settlement built on the top of a factory building. Middle- and working-class Hong Kong residents are feeling the housing squeeze from China on two sides. While wealthy mainland Chinese investors drive up real estate prices, affordable housing grows scarce in one of the world’s most expensive cities. At the same time, Chinese migrant laborers are crossing the increasingly open border to the north, which creates competition even for these dilapidated squatted rooftop units in industrial neighborhoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1411710142409-1PINZ9220EH5J6W642MB/20_MM7972_111218_48201+85.jpg Hong Kong Under China On the wave-sprayed rocks beside Aberdeen Harbor, fishermen and others who work on the ocean have placed figurines of Guan Yin (Kwun Yam), the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, for her protection at sea. 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Tribal members wait to perform at the Hornbill Festival, a government organized cultural gathering attended by all the tribes. Even at such tourist events, there are plenty of armed police to ward off trouble. In the past these would be Indian mainlanders but recent years have seen the more Naga police as a concession to the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517631492324-GWOE1OUQ2SO206LPKG1F/MM8255_131206_00904.jpg Nagaland Kohima, 2013. Tribal members wait to perform at the Hornbill Festival, a government organized cultural gathering attended by all the tribes. Even at such tourist events, there are plenty of armed police to ward off trouble. In the past these would be Indian mainlanders but recent years have seen the more Naga police as a concession to the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517633139831-CR5V58BA1LTUJIT1ALKA/MM8255_131217_14001.jpg Nagaland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517638387972-YPDPKDAQLVX1U10MF5CG/MM8255_131215_11105A.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2013. Morning mist over the hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517632688603-CJA8RTIGYRUNATO7KJHO/MM8255_131216_12204.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2013. In the Konyak village Sheangha Chingyu, skulls taken by the tribal raiders are kept in a small “museum” built in 2013 to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity. Once proudly displayed outdoors, the bleached-white skulls now staring out from wooden shelves indoors —seven rows high, 130 in all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517637654543-CG3TL9DJHL62LWCV3SVC/MM8255_131215_11477.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2013. Village boys play on a heap of stones that replaced the pile of skulls in front of the king's house when the Naga Christian elders asked that the skulls be buried. Supposedly there is one stone for each head. A church now stands across from the mound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517639809511-DPBXUSTZFL6HI9082QRF/MM8255_131208_03702.jpg Nagaland Kohima, 2013. In other parts of India, gaudily decorated trucks might feature the likenesses of Hindu deities like Vishnu and Lakshmi. Near Kohima, the capital of the predominantly Christian state of Nagaland, they have portraits of Jesus instead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517641029980-HEDMNE0K0G3PQXVCD1YC/MM8255_140326_22296.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2014. In Mon Village, many random hoses carry water pumped up the hill from a reservoir below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517640794539-4J1EWAQEQ79WFXG6TIFD/MM8255_140326_22561.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2014. Mai Wang, a 16 year-old high schooler, sits with his grandmother. Her head ornaments indicate her royal status as a wife of a now-deceased king; his mohawk-ish hairdo show the trendiness of Korean pop culture among the Naga youth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517638200187-IVGT1VS97FYIBRSGZC49/MM8255_140322_20674.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2013. It takes gunsmith Wangchet Konyak about one week to make a musket by hand. Almost every gun in the village was made by him or his grandfather, and the men all carry them with them when they go out in the forest. None of his children have offered to take up the craft after he retires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517633508479-8OUW6N3IWRS5VDEWJJWT/MM8255_140416_37286small.jpg Nagaland Dimapur, 2014. As part of the 1997 ceasefire agreement between the Indian government and the NSCN-IM, the most powerful and established of the various Naga insurgent factions, the underground group is allowed to maintain camps of armed forces, including its political headquarters, Camp Hebron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517640457992-UJ90QWPYYFT06GRVMVU3/MM8255_140319_16676d.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2014. After a day of working on a village building, villager men drink rice whiskey and melt opium (easily available from across the Burma border) to smoke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517639013807-K02Y5E60HKQWND4C6BAU/MM8255_140327_23581.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2014. For the first birthday of the village shopkeeper’s son, the family is throwing a celebration to feed the entire village. As part of the Baptist service, the previously traditional animist ritual sacrifice of a mithun buffalo has now been adapted to contemporary Christian faith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517631658857-SQMUYT5LNKDXQBGEZA9O/MM8255_131212_06431A.jpg Nagaland Dimapur, 2013. On the border next to Assam is Dimapur, once the flatland center of the non-Naga Dimasa Kachari Kingdom, now Nagaland's largest city. With the state's only rail station and airport, this is the gateway Nagas must depart through to access the rest of India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517634074640-2LD0K0RR3SHAHG4IB0JJ/MM8255_140329_24035.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2014. As per tradition, former headhunter Wangkah, 83, got his face tattooed after his first raid and his body tattooed after he took his first head. He received the Jesus clock after his conversion to Christianity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517638514629-AV9PV2GS7CHHETLW8NUS/21_MM8255_131214_10918.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2013. Sunday school youth worship team lines the walls of the revival tent for a village's 50th anniversary jubilee celebrating its conversion to Christianity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517641206455-27QO9TFPIIUCIXPV04PA/MM8255_140315_16082.jpg Nagaland Dimapur, 2014. Naga musicians Abiogenesis perform experimental indigenous folk-fusion music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517632515376-RMPCUEVHIU3MLE3ZA0PD/MM8255_131209_05042.jpg Nagaland Kohima, 2013. At the meat market, a dog carcass is blowtorched to get rid of the hair. Dog meat is popular among some of the Naga tribes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517638638557-Y08KSX1BFCFHLK7OU0YZ/MM8255_140321_19166.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2014. Slash and burn cultivation to plant cardamom trees for sale of the spice to neighboring Assam. This is a recent government economic initiative, as the Konyak don't use cardamom in their own cooking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517633076819-XEBPEPUL5XRRJ83OCUEH/MM8255_140415_35543.jpg Nagaland Dimapur, 2014. Akuonuo Khezie, an Angami Naga from Kohima, does a fitting with designer Ikali Sukhau, a Sumi Naga. Akuonuo competed for Miss India in 2007 after winning Miss Nagaland. While her fellow contestants from the mainland got Bollywood contracts and domestic advertising campaigns, Akuonuo signed with Ford Models in New York , where her East Asian looks would be less detrimental to a modeling career. Now she runs a performing arts school in Dimapur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517639308834-SY1ND85Q5XJBWS4HHDD5/07_MM8255_140402_27391.jpg Nagaland Mon, 2014. The Aoleang planting celebration includes dancing, mock battles, prayers and songs. The village youth organize the annual event, intent on preserving and appreciating remnants of pre-Baptist culture before they disappear. http://www.markleongphotography.com/korean-robots daily 0.75 2021-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517642872640-LWI8K6R9BFYSKBRLJ0QV/20161028_KoreaRobot_02195a.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. At Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), one of the robotics projects is EveR, a lifelike female android with speech recognition, voice synthesis and gesture expression technology allowing for more sophisticated communication and interaction with humans. EveR is capable of 20 different facial emotions such as fear, joy and anger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517642872640-LWI8K6R9BFYSKBRLJ0QV/20161028_KoreaRobot_02195a.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. At Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), one of the robotics projects is EveR, a lifelike female android with speech recognition, voice synthesis and gesture expression technology allowing for more sophisticated communication and interaction with humans. EveR is capable of 20 different facial emotions such as fear, joy and anger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517643607339-IBZ60A0RDSNM075THH2H/20161028_KoreaRobot_02313.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. The Dongdaemun Design Plaza was designed by Zaha Hadid and Korean architecture studio Samoo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517642952613-4REJFDVIQEI61G5VA6KG/20161027_KoreaRobot_01394.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. At Seoul Robotics High School, members of a robot design club ready their machines for tasks in a maze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1519471628343-0RNCOT3DMPFUT7I4OEPV/seoulentrep_111027_1134.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2011. Portrait studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517642641001-1B9V6Y8AI7AOOANPIPXQ/20161026_KoreaRobot_00190.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. Graduate students at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Hubo Lab work with various generations of their robot, including the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge champion DRC-Hubo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517647841720-AM367IREG0SSP0EIGM44/20161028_KoreaRobot_01999.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. At some primary schools, young students learn to play go as a regular part of the curriculum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517647769056-A55Q7D1OLOML1XTEIOWG/20161028_KoreaRobot_02582.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. The century-old Gwangjang Market, with vendors selling all kinds of local dishes, including sausages, seafood pancakes, pig trotters and still-wriggling octopus tentacles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517642593110-W67VS5R288C3MYR211S2/20161026_KoreaRobot_00755.jpg Korea and Robots Pohang, 2016. In the Robot Life Museum at KIRO (Korea Institute of Robot and Convergence), a display of mechanical humanoids by Korean toy company Robobuilder dances to PSY’s “Gangnam Style.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517642993645-E46XG8JF52UCBU24MMHM/20161027_KoreaRobot_01756.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. Over the past decade, Sooam Biotech has offered to clone dogs for $100,000 a pop. The owner of this original dog sent in a biopsy sample, and now there are three more genetically identical pets at the lab getting ready to be picked up. Sooam website instructions: When your dog has passed away, do not place the cadaver in the freezer. Wrap the entire body in wet bathing towels. Place it in the fridge (not the freezer) to keep it cool. Please take into account that you have approximately 5 days to successfully extract and secure live cells. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517643977846-ZAUSG6NFXRBJN4SMF5QN/20161029_KoreaRobot_03091.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. Teenagers and those in their 20s wear colorful Korean “hanbok” in tourist locations such as palaces and cultural neighborhoods. The city encourages this with perks like museum admission for young people wearing traditional costume. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517647673164-LD7KLRTJKL2PTQRHMHCW/20161029_KoreaRobot_04254.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. Korea is the cradle of e-sports which have now become popular worldwide, with crowds gathering to watch video gamers compete on big screens. In Seoul’s Gangnam district, the Nexon Arena hosts a live SPOTV Games broadcast of a Dual Race finals match, where players pilot cute cartoon drivers around a variety of circuits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1629606672749-PNJY3LDOUPRRHTWJOCRD/seoulentrep_111028_2445.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2011. In the South Korean capital, hypermodern shopping mall sit side by side with ancient Buddhist shrines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1517643191097-IPLK2CQVSOFJNTAGFELQ/20161027_KoreaRobot_01889.jpg Korea and Robots Seoul, 2016. Seoul University is working with Technical University of Berlin on brain-computer interfaces to control exoskeletons, wheelchairs and other devices. This technology uses only one’s mind to control objects. http://www.markleongphotography.com/people daily 0.75 2023-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1680472466868-5TPU6QB6UE63VP0DTA8W/01_40_160801_JP_Omotesando_AppleCamp_MarkLeong_04278b.jpg.JPG People Apple. Beats consumers at Omotesando Apple Store. Tokyo, Japan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1680472466868-5TPU6QB6UE63VP0DTA8W/01_40_160801_JP_Omotesando_AppleCamp_MarkLeong_04278b.jpg.JPG People Apple. Beats consumers at Omotesando Apple Store. Tokyo, Japan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1680472449816-U1GPN8K5HV04K8R132VG/02_23_siemens_shouqin_120312_0135b.jpg.JPG People Siemens. Shouqin Steel. Qinghuangdao, China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1680472765315-L8P56CCZ2A1RP5RNP126/03_19_siemensstlouis_20120630_01869.jpg People Siemens. 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Worker left his factory job in the city making iPad cases to return to his hometown to make ceramic teacups and bowls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297328254-XB5XA6UY7LLISRXFIQHY/MM9085_190328_020330.jpg People and Places Jingdezhen, China. Worker left his factory job in the city making iPad cases to return to his hometown to make ceramic teacups and bowls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1680472652800-1DBA6LWCPPI28T3HJA4N/29_sfhousingcrisis_191012_004592b.jpg.JPG People and Places San Francisco, California, USA. Couple enjoys city view from Twin Peaks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1660257136007-X94XNEQCTQUVQQB3X1QS/mHealth_kenya_130910_04858.jpg People and Places Mbale, Kenya. Mother and child, supported by mother-infant mobile health program managed by the World Health Organization https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1687320424808-G95P17SY1I51MHPRT6P7/01355_DSC_8677.jpg People and Places Fremont, California, USA. Behind-the-scenes during production of film for launch of drug Cyltezo by Boehringer Ingelheim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1687320914376-PTGOGRICUN163F8DMXPB/17_20161028_KoreaRobot_02313.JPG People and Places Seoul, South Korea. The Dongdaemun Design Plaza, also called the DDP, was designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Korean architecture studio Samoo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1655154414677-8F8CF3GTZQKI0B5MBGWD/image-asset.jpeg People and Places Bengaluru, India. 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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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1681864697561-XQYERJLLR4XLV83L3V4F/scioly_20230115_01666small.jpg People and Places Mountain View, California, USA. Science Olympian tests her airplane in the high school gym https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1681863788648-66R90AKSYMU8TGO1ULI5/081_079_NGD-75572-20_200504_0012550.jpg.JPG.JPG People and Places Berkeley, California, USA. Unhoused man living on a freeway cloverleaf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297630579-TQW433V6BFP4PJH1TILD/image-asset.jpeg People and Places 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1660257072169-6HZEVXLAKEYFOVG7SVP3/35_JJNURSE_160316_00647+copy.jpg People and Places Beijing, China. Neo-natal intensive care unit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616392528682-1ZJUQM7SGU49LOJM6F04/MM7848_100427_03173.jpg People and Places Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Sumo school for young wrestlers; three of Japan’s recent top champions have come from Mongolia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616540244970-6Q07ZQF8L6SKU81C0V1I/shanghai+scaffold.jpg People and Places Shanghai, China. Workers construct pilings for an elevated highway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1681863343698-DZJT1ZLVP6OUQY2KDOHY/scioly_20230203_03182.jpg People and Places Mountain View, California, USA. Member of high school Science Olympiad team builds a lightweight balsa wood bridge intended to hold 15kg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1687320469502-OK5ZRTOSTMFIX8N406ZF/00353_DSC_76603000.JPG People and Places Fremont, California, USA. Behind-the-scenes during production of film for launch of drug Cyltezo by Boehringer Ingelheim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1657663043343-DYYGN82DQKM92MTY6L8P/58_19_MM8255_140411_30853.JPG People and Places Nagaland, India. Slash and burn agriculture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297658727-JVFM1LS86784XHM9RS6I/STOCK_MM9085_190815_036441+copy.jpg People and Places Beijing, China. Musicians live and play their instruments in a tiny rented alleyway room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1681863341893-TQUCVZ0PR5RP4CMGDL9X/scioly_20230211_03611.jpg People and Places Berkeley, California, USA. Chemistry competitor at the Golden Gate Science Olympiad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297771848-3MZ86OYVSK7ZY3V5SSCQ/STOCK_MM9085_191117_046818+B.jpg People and Places Shanghai, China. Urban explorers climb on high rooftops to take photos to post on Instagram. Both rooftopping and Instagram are banned in China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1687320903255-6R46AI86KQDG48T221T7/16_20161028_KoreaRobot_02195a.JPG People and Places 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616376339625-OKELGD22IX1NGFSF17MF/44_NGD-75572-20_200504_0013071.jpg People and Places Berkeley, California, USA. Unhoused woman and her dog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297578910-BN7YTOXZC2MRSJ4NJGGR/STOCK_MM9085_181208_010728.jpg People and Places Jilin, China. Seniors intending to go to grad school spend almost the entire year studying for the entrance exam instead of going to class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1687320800097-WXE3U4G9KKY3GJ6V08DL/scioly_20230112_01109.JPG People and Places Berkeley, California, USA. Members of Berkeley High School robotics team test an early prototype of their competition robot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297599569-2JF8DJMFGPNSUCH1B34E/STOCK_MM9085_181211_012009+copy.jpg People and Places Beijing, China. Entrepreneurs run a vape shop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1681864603724-RKGDJHZ1UYLWKJKGYOFT/scioly_20230318_08768small.jpg People and Places San Francisco, California, USA. Members of Ruth Asawa School of the Arts Robotics Team cheer during the SF Regional https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616544128138-ZJ1GCVZKLSYW0H6L2PA1/harrison+liu+new.jpg People and Places Xinjiang, China. Actor films his character’s death scene in the action movie Warriors of Heaven and Earth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297662705-PI4IUU4VZJ20RDYOJ9OE/STOCK_MM9085_190816_038611.jpg People and Places 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1616376267364-N9I6C04SEM15NRCYNZFP/33_NGD-75572-20_201028_0037594.jpg People and Places Oakland, California, USA. For many unhoused people, dogs offer both companionship and security https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297506599-23TXE4DVQH0EZFQ0XMD0/image-asset.jpeg People and Places https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1681922068351-FTX2KQ6HKTZADKG4P2E7/NGD-75572-20_210422_005963A3000.jpg People and Places 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1687320805700-T1IXXGEQ2LTV6V3FLEQ2/scioly_20230326_11320.JPG People and Places - scioly_20230326_11320 Davis, California, USA. Berkeley High School robotics team members ready for the playoff elimination rounds at the Sacramento Regionals of the First Robotics Competition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1657746257430-NZGELNEIR9NX5PA464RJ/MM7972_111218_48201.jpg People and Places 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297522559-G58B7YX7T8M9M01NRH7Y/STOCK_MM9085_181202_008335.jpg People and Places Shanghai, China. Design student babysits her boyfriend’s son during band practice http://www.markleongphotography.com/high-school-robotics-teams daily 0.75 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108169907-L7677152APZHG5TRUKEN/scioly_20230121_02115+copy.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230121_02115 copy Annika, a member of the Space Cookies 1868 Robotics Team, sits among the team’s past robots, preparing parts for the new build. Unlike most FRC teams, Space Cookies is not high school based — it is a Girl Scout troop that meets at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682107718324-KFCG3WMFWGYX0UCQ4APE/scioly_20230218_05151.jpg High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230218_05151 Member of East Palo Alto Churrobots Team 9048 cleans out part of a swerve drive mechanism for assembly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108169907-L7677152APZHG5TRUKEN/scioly_20230121_02115+copy.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230121_02115 copy Annika, a member of the Space Cookies 1868 Robotics Team, sits among the team’s past robots, preparing parts for the new build. Unlike most FRC teams, Space Cookies is not high school based — it is a Girl Scout troop that meets at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108173441-YFNAS9438L1VT57TD6NZ/scioly_20230317_08387.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230317_08387 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. Besides building robots, the program also includes creating individual team branding, from Instagram and Linkedin accounts to buttons and hoodies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108177521-9YQPQRU2LQ3SX35M8ANF/scioly_20230112_01109.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230112_01109 Members of Berkeley High School Team 5419 Berkelium do some tests on an early prototype made during the first build week out of wood and parts from previous year’s robots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108179150-WSCZEO75E4RDN5CP7IN2/scioly_20230218_05151.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230218_05151 Member of East Palo Alto Churrobots Team 9048 cleans out part of a swerve drive mechanism for assembly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108184166-XGWJ6QOP9DRW26GEKL5R/scioly_20230212_04064.JPG High School Robotics Teams Close up of the cone pickup and placement arm of the Mitty High School Robotics Team 1251 TKO robot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108186670-0466DI26UTH7XH9PFQA1/scioly_20230108_00755.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230108_00755 Members of the Mountain View High School 971 Spartan Robotics Team prototype a suction subsystem for picking up cones. This was ultimately passed over for a silicone roller based method. Failure and re-grouping as a team is a huge part of competitive robotics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108194444-M1EZCKT0MOU3YRX8YQQC/scioly_20230128_02887+copy.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230128_02887 copy A previous version of the Mountain View High School 971 Spartan Robotics Team control board and custom 3D printed pistol-grip controller. Every year the competition has different game pieces, fields and objectives, so the functions change as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108195354-6PTG6ULWYUVXEV71L90P/scioly_20230128_02825.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230128_02825 Members of the Mountain View High School 971 Spartan Robotics Team use a CNC router to machine complex parts out of aluminum. Fifteen years ago CNC routers were uncommon and prohibitively expensive. Now robotics high schoolers are getting hands-on professional skills with CNC (computer numerical control) combined with CAD/CAM (computer aided drafting and modeling) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108205749-9LW57D3Y4AIS9XTLJHJ6/scioly_20230126_02386+copy.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230126_02386 Members of Berkeley High School Team 5419 Berkelium test a prototype for achieving one of this year’s game goals of placing traffic cones on vertical rods, using a roller launch mechanism to shoot them in the air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108206681-ICR5C5BE8DBKYIE1HKN6/scioly_20230218_05801.JPG High School Robotics Teams Members of the Mountain View High School 971 Spartan Robotics Team work on the final build for their robot. Situated in the middle of Silicon Valley, with sponsors like Google, Intuitive Surgical and John Deere and local mentors deeply embedded in the mechatronics industry, Team 971 is known as an innovative tech powerhouse, with custom circuit boards and vision systems. Some of their code has been adapted back into the industry for professional use. Other feature - carbon fiber arm with a wrist motion, custom gear box. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108215382-TEEHDBQAWDJL30N8J81O/scioly_20230219_06053.JPG High School Robotics Teams The elementary school level feeder into the FIRST Robotics world is the FIRST Lego League, whose shoebox-sized robots compete on table top fields as opposed to FRC’s washing machine-sized robots competing on basketball courts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108217671-CYS9CGI9D52ZGKRGD1FO/scioly_20230219_06191+copy.JPG High School Robotics Teams Members of the Mountain View High School 971 Spartan Robotics Team work on the final build for their robot. Situated in the middle of Silicon Valley, with sponsors like Google, Intuitive Surgical and John Deere and local mentors deeply embedded in the mechatronics industry, Team 971 is known as an innovative tech powerhouse, with custom circuit boards and vision systems. Some of their code has been adapted back into the industry for professional use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108226480-AIH2VQW67PGT8JM1V9YL/scioly_20230326_11017.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230326_11017 2023 FRC Sacramento Regional https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108227249-HCMYJ6YFSA7RWX5A6Z4B/scioly_20230318_08768.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230318_08768 Members of SF Ruth Asawa School of the Arts Team 5700 cheer for their alliance at the SF Regional https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108247507-2IIAJ317PO8QZ1B9RGBJ/scioly_20230408_12393.JPG High School Robotics Teams The finals of the Silicon Valley Regional https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108252470-NR4WJDNSMWJZ8L9O9X9H/scioly_20230326_10690a.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230326_10690a Members of the Mount Diablo Unified School District Robotics Team 7137 Project 212 wear the team’s name and number on their faces https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108234770-B2JHN6R7C041E5QIA7DJ/scioly_20230319_09304.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230319_09304 Saratoga High School Robotics Team 649 MSET Fish practice with members of their alliance to balance their robots on a platform for endgame bonus points. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108237037-JBT4R3QAUXY8D917YU9J/scioly_20230319_09234.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230319_09234 Members of the Khan Lab School Team 6962 RobotX have lunch in the hallway of St Ignatius College Preparatory, who hosted the SF Regional. FRC tournaments are big lively festivals that combine elements of science fairs, hockey matches, stock car racing and game theory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108243565-LV2YLOC036MK3B9VXI44/scioly_20230318_09030.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230318_09030 Team 299 ValkyrieRobotics tend to their robot in the pits at the 2023 FRC SF Regional https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108256544-AW44E65KGBS9YROD28C3/scioly_20230326_11320.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230326_11320 Driver and coders for Berkeley High School Team 5419 Berkelium in the playoff elimination rounds at the Sacramento Regionals. Signing up for the tournament at the last second, they actually qualified for the World Championships with their performance. Earlier that week, Theo (at laptop) found he had been accepted to MIT. Students say that 1/3 of those accepted to MIT this year listed FRC among their activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1682108260236-PUWJQHKZG2CC5PD9K6CX/scioly_20230319_09634A.JPG High School Robotics Teams - scioly_20230319_09634A Mountain View High School Team 971 Spartan Robotics has over 80 members. This is the moment when won the SF Regional, thereby qualifying for the World Championships by http://www.markleongphotography.com/sample daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297328254-XB5XA6UY7LLISRXFIQHY/MM9085_190328_020330.jpg Work Jingdezhen, China. Ceramicist makes tea vessels (for National Geographic) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1598297328254-XB5XA6UY7LLISRXFIQHY/MM9085_190328_020330.jpg Work Jingdezhen, China. Ceramicist makes tea vessels (for National Geographic) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1687320914376-PTGOGRICUN163F8DMXPB/17_20161028_KoreaRobot_02313.JPG Work Seoul, South Korea. Dongdaemun Design Plaza, designed by Zaha Hadid and Korean architecture studio Samoo (for Smithsonian) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1740686011941-BR4IIBU0Y5AYFF66KXPP/work+portfolio+text.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1680472765315-L8P56CCZ2A1RP5RNP126/03_19_siemensstlouis_20120630_01869.jpg Work St. Louis, USA. Child gets tested before medical imaging procedure (for Siemens) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1740684917373-PREQ3L6CG4Z72A1YQJ0Y/17_caihongbin_120411_1438.jpg Work Beijing, China. 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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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1621455220650-QBJECD7A8AQ1RMG3UZS3/NGD-75572-20_210517_0061587.jpg Work Oakland, USA. Unhoused family living in a broken down mobile home (for National Geographic Society) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1687320800097-WXE3U4G9KKY3GJ6V08DL/scioly_20230112_01109.JPG Work Berkeley, USA. Members of Berkeley High School Team 5419 Berkelium do some tests on an early prototype (for National Public Radio) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1700550465172-7YLFML7YF5XD57BWXXCJ/intel_recruitment_gdansk_20180807_17131.JPG Work Gdansk, Poland. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1727153396041-SRHFXKA98NLVM3NA2OQ6/33_31_jillianmanus_20240711_01832.JPG Events, Competition and People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1727153397888-DFTW99WI3T935EWUXU0T/34_34_scioly_20230408_12310.JPG Events, Competition and People http://www.markleongphotography.com/port24 daily 0.75 2024-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187624103-E4UW9NL7QO8C66N3NIQD/10_04_04_90shunde-honda.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Obscura is a book that collects my black and white work documenting China between 1989 and 2003. Published in 2004 by Chronicle Books Shunde, 1990. In my father's ancestral village, an imported motorcycle bought on the black market expanded one's range getting work at distant construction sites https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187624103-E4UW9NL7QO8C66N3NIQD/10_04_04_90shunde-honda.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Obscura is a book that collects my black and white work documenting China between 1989 and 2003. Published in 2004 by Chronicle Books Shunde, 1990. In my father's ancestral village, an imported motorcycle bought on the black market expanded one's range getting work at distant construction sites https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187629284-TFJCQBIA2DF0WGIFH5I0/11_02_17_97shanghai-scaffoldXL.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Obscura. Shanghai, 1997. Construction workers build an elevated freeway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187584065-6GZHUFJMY61HW0EATXE8/01_088_087_scioly_20230211_03611.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187632196-QG6YEX8MAWFK25FI9V7C/12_90taishan-ancestorworship+copy.jpg Portfolio 2024 China Obscura. Taishan, 1990. After building this house in the village in the 1920s, my mother’s father left for Chicago, never to come back even once. More than 60 years later, my cousin offers food, money and rice wine to the ancestors to let them know I have returned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187635795-WAIYWWZE6DY4OSR2BUGL/13_01shenzhen-industrial.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Obscura. Shenzhen, 2001. This 21 year-old factory worker lost both arms in a factory accident when he fell asleep at his punch press station. Thirty-one such accidents a day happened that year in Shenzhen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187637753-ZL3NR8KM225JNCOJ7YDK/14_020_018_97beijing-videoartist+copy+2.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Obscura. Beijing, 1997. Documentary filmmaker screens one of his experimental videos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187640708-FDCJYVHBWVPLQWIDFFM7/15_19_92beijing-tangdynasty.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Obscura. Beijing, 1992. Plainclothes policeman monitors concert by rock band Tang Dynasty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187643373-35CO3WFYK2L8387C9KNV/16_99shenzhen-bride.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Obscura. Shenzhen, 1999. Women wears a borrowed dress to take wedding pictures in a photography salon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729228580418-CAUOHOY5T6ESK8UZJNZ8/01_088_087_scioly_20230211_03611.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area High School STEM Competitors documents students on First Robotics Competition and Science Olympiad teams as they design, study, build, practice and compete. These stories were published by NPR in 2023 and Edsurge in 2024. Berkeley, 2023. Science Olympian competes in Chemistry Lab event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187584594-L49YLVCFH32E7ZMUHV41/02_scioly_20230112_01109.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area High School STEM Competitors. Berkeley, 2023. Members of Berkeley High School Team 5419 Berkelium look at a previous prototype for ideas about the new season’s robot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187595024-20YOLTTO62MS75PCO6MW/03_scioly_20230113_01298.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area High School STEM Competitors. San Francisco, 2023. At Lowell High School, a 4159 CardinalBotics team lead drills a component for the prototype robot’s elevator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187593867-UEL8ZN2KSWHZEX5EKI1Q/04_scioly_20240126_16128+copy.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area High School STEM Competitors. Milpitas, 2024. Members of Milpitas High School Science Olympiad Team glue together a 7 gram balsa tower they hope can support 15 kilograms of sand in a suspended bucket https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187603787-JF8SZVHQG9YNZ0O6GHK9/05_scioly_20230408_11873.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area High School STEM Competitors. San Jose, 2023. At the 2023 FRC Silicon Valley Regional, community-based Team 6238 Popcorn Penguins bring their robot into the playing area and ready it for competition. At the end of the day, they take home the Team Spirit Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187605179-STBMC85VY3LJXK1SRSHK/06_scioly_20230115_01573+copy.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area High School STEM Competitors. Mountain View, 2023. Mountain View High School student practices launching his airplane for competition in the Science Olympiad Flight event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187612276-FOCBTOA7VUNYM11QHPJI/07_scioly_20230326_11332.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area High School STEM Competitors. Davis, 2023. At the Sacramento Regional, a number of robotics teams dye their hair in school colors for the tournaments, including this student from Berkeley High School Team 5419 Berkelium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187613952-64D93FT3VL8XL3HS7KCL/08_scioly_20230326_11320.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area High School STEM Competitors. Davis, 2023. Berkeley High School Team 5419 Berkelium’s drive and programming crew calibrate the targeting camera on their robot before a playoff match https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187624106-D4ZR2OPPDN2QUWFP9W1W/09_scioly_20230319_09634A.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area High School STEM Competitors. San Francisco, 2023. Mountain View High School Team 971 Spartan Robotics explode in joy the moment they know they have won the 2023 San Francisco Regional and qualified for the World First Championship in Houston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187652053-WI3UOO9K1PSMCIYTGAR3/17_045_043_01_MM7972_110623_22223_41inch.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 Hong Kong Under China is a portrait of once free city closing in on 25 years of Chinese rule since the 1997 handover from Great Britain, presaging the unrest and repression to follow in 2014 and 2019. Published in 2012 by National Geographic Hong Kong, 2011. Mongkok is one of the most densely populated districts in the world https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187651426-2HADT0HHDSRZ06SSEKWE/18_046_046_22_MM7972_110609_17731fixed.JPG.JPG Portfolio 2024 Hong Kong Under China. Hong Kong, 2011. Launch party for Chanel's new J12 Chromatic titanium ceramic luxury watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187660357-5R5FYGMD33HLMMFJTY65/19_08_23_MM7972_110627_24461.JPG Portfolio 2024 Hong Kong Under China. Hong Kong, 2011. A former factory accountant from northeast China makes more money as a legal sex worker, enough to buy two apartments back home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187661586-MOWOHH9FXLYTENZM1QFB/20_047_044_08_MM7972_111206_33653B_41inch+copy.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 Hong Kong Under China. Hong Kong, 2011. Beat-up armchairs await residents of a shantytown built on the top of a factory building. Hong Kong has the largest wealth gap of any developed nation or territory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187672772-Q7S1DFCH4S1WXLM7LVB6/21_049_048_23_MM7972_110603_12104.JPG.JPG Portfolio 2024 Hong Kong Under China. Hong Kong, 2011. Artist street performance in memory the June 4,1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown victims twenty-two years previous. This young man is covered sticky notes that he has invited other artists and passers-by to inscribe with messages of protest to the China and HK governments. By 2014 the sticky note had become a staple and a symbol of HK protest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187672074-BE1RBABEK6OSR1NQEG51/22_27_NGD-75572-20_200423_0009393.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid covered the unhoused community in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville between 2020 and 2022. Although no names are shown here, I received explicit from people in photographs to use their images, names and stories. The work was funded by a grant from the National Geographic Covid-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists. San Francisco, 2020. Out-of-work bartender brings out supplies and donated clothing she has collected to distribute them to her neighbors living on the Tenderloin streets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187681804-K68A45FTKBGK5R4PSI7K/23_29_NGD-75572-20_200529_0019347+copy.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid. Berkeley, 2020. Lifelong Medical Center Street Medicine Team does testing and other treatment at the Shellmound homeless encampment, where recently a positive case was discovered https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187681984-C4HAFEH21BC4DXDL8PUP/24_075_NGD-75572-20_200821_0029096.jpg Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid. Oakland, 2020. When her dog had a litter of puppies, this Wood Street resident became their second mother. They pile on her for comfort and love as she stands in front of the vehicle that was her father’s home until he died earlier that year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187688361-H22C9CJR301OWJRR0DCA/25_NGD-75572-20_201029_0039260.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid. Oakland, 2020. Members of the United Front Against Displacement gather to successfully (but temporarily) defend a homeless encampment from being forcibly evicted by the Oakland police. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187689791-LMDCT3E882P80HJZLH0I/26_080_076_NGD-75572-20_200414_0004188.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid. San Francisco, 2020. After spending an hour cleaning up the alleyway near his tent, a man washes himself with a bottle of water https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729228690190-Z290SUPOROA9AZ3LD1SC/NGD-75572-20_201208_0046126.jpg Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid. Oakland, 2020. Rats from the Union Point homeless camp trapped by the Alameda County Vector Control Disease Study team. Rats are a major problem for the unsheltered population - carrying ticks, fleas, rabies and other diseases while contaminating food, biting people and eating holes in tents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187698360-LY701CMOP3ZEDEYU6QAS/27_084_NGD-75572-20_210425_0059822.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid. Emeryville, 2021. Activist/lawyer (left) talks with unhoused resident about their lawsuit against the city to get a temporary restraining order preventing eviction of the Ashby/Shellmound freeway exit encampment by a real estate company developing the land into condominiums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187699214-146NYL5450WPCWR0PNXT/28_38_NGD-75572-20_210517_0061587+copy.jpg Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid. Oakland, 2021. For the last five months, this woman has lived with two of her five children in an RV parked in East Oakland after being evicted from her apartment. She lost her job as a security guard but is now studying home-care online and is hopeful about getting permanent housing via HUD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187709521-ELXH6WU3QTED6I4QYCU3/29_082_077_06sf_fen_20221027_00668.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid. San Francisco, 2022. Drug users from different parts of California are drawn to San Francisco because of high availability and low price of fentanyl here at Civic Center, within a few hundred yards of City Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187709129-C7NKAJBNB67JOUBDJZC3/30_084_083_NGD-75572-20_210422_005963A.JPG.JPG Portfolio 2024 Bay Area Shelter Crisis During Covid. Berkeley, 2022. Artist/activist installs the letters WDWG (for Where Do We Go) by the Ashby/Shellmound freeway exit, in support of the unhoused residents living there. Caltrans took them down in less than a day and most of the residents were cleared out within a few weeks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187721227-OV7J5HJI9AY7N3GV16WZ/31_101_101_22_STOCK_MM9085_190812_033039b.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth is my in-progress project documenting the post 90s single-child policy generation of young adults coming of age at a period of prosperity and globalization in a much different country from their parents’ China. Inner Mongolia, 2019. Urban refugees roam the grasslands on their motorcycles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187720813-68OEB3TPB8PWHY0YEI1T/32_STOCK_MM9085_180917_003031+%28MacBook-Pro.local%27s+conflicted+copy+2022-05-02%29.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Shanghai, 2018. College students dress up in traditional hanfu costume, China’s patriotic response to Japanese cosplay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187730385-D6IASWZMP4L92S2HEG9U/33_MM9085_190328_020330.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Jingdezhen, 2019. Going against decades of rural-to-urban migration flow, this pottery master left a Suzhou factory job manufacturing iPad cases to return home and make porcelain teacups https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187730388-NEPJ6B2110VF1D66JK98/34_STOCK_MM9085_181208_010728+%28MacBook-Pro.local%27s+conflicted+copy+2022-05-02%29.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Jinan, 2018. Instead of going to class, college seniors spend 18 hour days cramming for graduate school entrance exams at Jinan Yingcai (Talent) University. A major part of the exams requires rote memorization of political thought, including the results of past Party meetings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187739105-XNS0UBRI2UPFB3D7MPQ8/35_100_100_STOCK_MM9085_180930_007499.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Beijing, 2018. Anybody can be a star in this traditionally self-effacing society. At 18, this wanghong (internet influencer), posts livestreams and TikTok videos of himself singing, chatting and putting on makeup. He claims tens of thousands of fans, including many older men who send him “gifts.” Re: media criticism of "sissy boys” he says: “They judge masculinity by appearances rather than character and responsibility” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187742844-MCHO5NGWCM10TTXQBTJF/36_MM9085_191123_047485.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Beiijng, 2019. Experimental art calligraphers perform a version of bixian (ghost pen) where only the artist in the middle knows what is to be written and physically influences the others to write it his way https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187746497-1JCANSI2Y0A2B0YVZQFE/37_106_MM9085_190407_026988.jpg Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Beijing, 2019. Love In the TIme of Facial Recognition Software. Young couple spends part of the weekend visiting Tiananmen Square. Like all visitors, their every move is recorded from multiple angles by the surveillance cameras that festoon many of the lampposts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187750126-GVS5YAIDOV5I2RK3N4FQ/38_STOCK_MM9085_181211_012009.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Beijing, 2018. Smoking hobbyists run a vape shop. One common characteristic in young Chinese is the immediate desire to monetize their hobbies. Within two years of this photo, they had both moved on to 3 or 4 other ventures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187754949-5FVLAFO2RK1C3BGRCTEW/39_STOCK_MM9085_190820_042609.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Shanghai, 2019. Lesbian couple who were open to being photographed at home, despite much of society not accepting same sex relationships. Their parents know they are together and welcome each partner to family functions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187761959-91OP4EMM8RHL1X662DCH/40_STOCK_MM9085_191117_046818+B.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Shanghai, 2019. Rooftoppers sneak atop tall buildings to take photos of themselves and the skyline to post on Instagram https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187763048-EF0T47845ODO76NX40E9/41_106_108_STOCK_MM9085_181202_008335.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 China Youth. Shanghai, 2018. Design student babysits her boyfriend’s son during band practice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187773448-JB9HJHNCHESITY6RGQ3T/42_033_031_01-MM7352_070219_02886.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 Asia’s Wildlife Trade: High demand for traditional medicines, exotic pets, and culinary delicacies drives a multibillion-dollar commerce—legal and illegal—that is emptying forests, fields, and seas. Across the region, we see the scale of the trade: traditions of consumption deeply ingrained in the culture, criminal activities that flourish in spite of the law, efforts at conservation and enforcement trying to gain footing, and the cold business of harvesting wild animals. 3 year investigation published in 2010 by National Geographic. Sumatera, Indonesia, 2007. At a reptile skinning operation, workers daily take hundreds of blood pythons and salvator monitors brought to them by local collectors, kill them with a blow to the head, fill the carcasses with water and air, skin them and dry the skins for sale to the leather goods industry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187770170-LVJWGOUKRMQP4P87OY8V/43_14_04-MM7352_081119_39637.JPG Portfolio 2024 Asia’s Wildlife Trade. Lombok, 2008. At the morning fish market on the east side of Lombok Island, boats carrying sharks unload in the morning and porters carry them on poles to the selling area. About 2/3 of the value is in the fins, which go to China for shark’s fin soup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187784501-R1KOIBHTABGONX32946H/44_034_032_12-MM7352_070616_08899.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 Asia’s Wildlife Trade. Guilin, China, 2007. The Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Park, with over 400 bears and 1300 tigers in captivity, has animals perform in daily circus-style shows, where some tourists are given the opportunity to feed young tigers fresh meat. The park, with its attached distillery, is lobbying for easing of regulations on China's 13 yr old tiger trade ban, especially with regards to tiger bone wine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187795463-VIOQDZGP7EJF2FW44PVL/46_67-GVA-LeonM-22.JPG Portfolio 2024 Asia’s Wildlife Trade. Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2008. The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation runs rehabilitation facilities for orphan orangutans in hopes of returning the primates to the wild. Among activities are "forest school," where human technicians bring infant orphan orangutans out in the trees where they can become accustomed to basic skills like swinging from branches and eating leaves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187786855-PGAIBNO7N4R4LP9TFY3C/45_036_034_02-MM7352_081213_42069.jpg.JPG Portfolio 2024 Asia’s Wildlife Trade. Hanoi, Vietnam, 2008. A sedated moon bear has bile extracted from its gall bladder. The bile which is supposed to be good for liver disease and male virility. This process takes 10-20 minutes. Then the bear is returned to its small cage to recover for the next extraction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187794801-QC3CEWZ0QRCAS82YX45L/47_20_beijingsuburbs_130423_01051.JPG Portfolio 2024 Outskirts. Personal project looking at human encroachment and intervention in the world Beijing, China, 2013. Grafted tree branches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187807806-NV0WYSW24IZSSX4UU36U/49_075_070_17_20161028_KoreaRobot_02313.JPG.JPG Portfolio 2024 Outskirts. Seoul, South Korea, 2016. The Dongdaemun Design Plaza, also called the DDP, was designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Korean architecture studio Samoo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187814882-7BYSCA8O61LSMWU4JS0S/50_24_sfhousingcrisis_191012_004592.JPG Portfolio 2024 Outskirts. San Francisco, USA, 2019. Overlooking the city from Twin Peaks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187810241-GIY9E5J9PX7CWXZIGFSP/48_06_outskirts_170309__07360.JPG Portfolio 2024 Outskirts. Beijing, China, 2017. Dust covers for a dirt road https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187828656-4Q9L53LNMXEJB2HU26N9/53_16_20161028_KoreaRobot_02195a.JPG Portfolio 2024 Outskirts. Cheonan, South Korea, 2016. Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) project EveR, a lifelike female android with speech recognition, voice synthesis and gesture expression technology allowing for more sophisticated communication and interaction with humans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1729187821068-4DJ2N1W56AHLF111GTFD/51_26_beijingsuburbs_130430_03104.jpg Portfolio 2024 Outskirts. Beijing, 2013. 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Launch party for Chanel's new J12 Chromatic titanium ceramic watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475924800-WRS2RZL64GN109BC080S/001_05_05_01MM7972_110609_17267.jpg.JPG.JPG Events and People Hong Kong, 2011. Launch party for Chanel's new J12 Chromatic titanium ceramic watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475342139-RZ5USUJ9D7RA8IN0RVRK/001-06clients.JPG Events and People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734473978282-B0REU3LZIBWGF4Y8HHBR/001_05_05_01MM7972_110609_17267.jpg.JPG.JPG Events and People https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475356827-VCJ11TZAOS3DWY8RYJXK/002_160625_Macau-NSO_MarkLeong_00302+copy.JPG Events and People Macau, 2016. New Apple Store opening https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475358085-LQS9QMCAFMHBAS0R6LMJ/003_03_03_ccci_subnational_20240528_00687.jpg.JPG Events and People Berkeley, 2024. California-China Climate Institute Subnational Climate Action Summit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475347094-YYQOKRWE58PBAORJD1SB/001_05_05_01MM7972_110609_17267.jpg.JPG.JPG Events and People Hong Kong, 2011. Launch party for Chanel's new J12 Chromatic titanium ceramic watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475366589-7JES8I4912XI2UJQXLBM/004_04_04_29_170523_IN-SR-Bengaluru-ITC_MarkLeong_04204.jpg.JPG Events and People Bengaluru, 2017. Apple India partner Wistron ICT SMS iPhone assembly plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475370130-26FUE694KLXMOTYN1EBF/005_00353_DSC_7660.JPG Events and People Fremont, 2023. Behind-the-scenes at Boehringer Ingelheim pharmaceutical plant interview shoot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475379767-C13VHR1AQVUDTRJNKTY7/006_23_15_170321_CN-PR-TCVisit_MarkLeong__00563.jpg.JPG Events and People Beijing, 2017. Tim Cook visit to ofo bicycle ridehsare app developer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475461979-3BCXDRQZ8HGN5YVHNPXA/018_20161028_KoreaRobot_02313.JPG Events and People Seoul, 2016. The Dongdaemun Design Plaza, also called the DDP, was designed by the late Zaha Hadid and Korean architecture studio Samoo, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475385541-HE4JXAMPB1TVQFK67DVR/007_20_21_21_scioly_20230317_08487.jpg.JPG.JPG Events and People San Francisco, 2023. Member of Ruth Asawa School of the Arts Cyberdragons Robotics Team wear buttons collected from other competing teams at San Francisco Regional tournament https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475392663-LECP3KU7HGXIV8PWRKDX/008_20220906-ml-MBAi-0656.JPG Events and People San Francisco, 2022. Students attend Northwestern Kellogg San Francisco MBAi Kickoff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475404497-PBY7FIW4B48PFV6U7129/011_06_06_scioly_20230326_11332.jpg.JPG Events and People Davis, 2023. At major high school robotics tournaments like the Sacramento Regional, team members sometimes show their sprit by dyeing their hair in their school colors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1737754095084-XT36PIZS8SWRA4MRAIXP/yahooliday_20231205_00204.JPG Events and People San Mateo, 2023. Ya-hooliday Bay Area Party 2023, including food, music and bowling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475420404-F1T7BT4SZCDJTEJ274PC/012_32_17_10_09_MM7848_100715_25844a+copyb.jpg Events and People Ulaanbaatar, 2010. Mongolian nomad children https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475419425-XXOJ6PUODN95LP5QFFON/013_STOCK_MM9085_180924_005410.JPG Events and People Beijing, 2018. Fans at RYE Music Festival with bands No Party for Cao Dong, Royal Concept and Reflector https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475432789-20XRZYHNYPINXUPKU6PC/014_scioly_20230831_12761e.JPG Events and People Mountain View, 2023. The Space Cookies are a Girl Scout troop that is also a competitive robotics team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475431395-562U5PRQCTCT2RR2GWSV/015_08_08_ccci_subnational_20240529_01799.jpg.JPG Events and People Berkeley, 2024. California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the California-China Climate Institute Subnational Summit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475394042-9OS1XUKGA6YEZC17GF29/009_004_97shanghai-scaffold+copy.JPG Events and People Shanghai, 1997. Workers construct pilings for an elevated highway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475444593-H5KSYM7WQTZDUWPB44WQ/016_19_14_20161029_KoreaRobot_03091.jpg Events and People Seoul, 2016. A government program uses discounts and free admission to parks and museums to incentivize South Korean students to dress in traditional hanbok costume https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475444584-X92J4CW56O6BHP1TP7FG/017_46_170529_IN-HR-Recruiting_MarkLeong_03910.JPG Events and People Hyderabad, 2017. 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After a few months this exchange was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475404504-W8BUIVHH8P78HLICCE95/010_11_170727_GS-10000deg-SFState_MarkLeong_01557.JPG Events and People San Francisco, 2017. Participants of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Degrees financial literacy program for high schoolers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475477093-WXLWZ7ZKZZUHN1TKYJSR/022_23_siemens_shouqin_120312_0135.JPG Events and People Qinhuangdao, 2012. Capital Steel plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475491054-TLYYCL9KTELQA9LW0UPJ/023_19_15_MM7972_110606_15242+copy.jpg Events and People Hong Kong, 2011. Dragon boat races have become a team-building event for many corporations and institutions who compete in the Stanley Beach paddling heats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475489255-ZOT8F7TZMEQ4HRNAWLWQ/024_04007_DSC_1331.JPG Events and People Fremont, 2023. Behind-the-scenes at Boehringer Ingelheim pharmaceutical plant industrial documentary shoot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475501863-HZUWOEBFBPOZSVIHASJL/025_yahooliday_20241203_00445.JPG Events and People Mountain View, 2024. Yahoo corporate holiday party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475501450-JNY8N41ADZK8CK1QXZCL/026_16_IMG_0205.JPG Events and People Beijing, 2011. 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At Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), one of the robotics projects is EveR, a lifelike female android with speech recognition, voice synthesis and gesture expression technology allowing for more sophisticated communication and interaction with humans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475550290-SLZOQMJDYRPFGLJU3TAE/032_07_07_scioly_20230319_09634A.jpg.JPG Events and People San Francisco, 2023. Mountain View High School Team 971 Spartan Robotics explode in joy and excitement the moment they know they have won the 2023 San Francisco Regional and qualified for the World First Championship in Houston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1734475549361-5V9UOQ0N1BJCI5JL98DS/033_32_NGD-75572-20_210422_005963A.JPG Events and People Berkeley, 2021. Artist/activist 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. Caltrans took them down in less than a day and most of the residents were cleared out within a few weeks. http://www.markleongphotography.com/contact daily 0.75 2015-01-19 http://www.markleongphotography.com/about daily 0.75 2015-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5424e0cfe4b0bfab03c744b9/1421510603011-HUVI2WDSLWDGJZQ1HBLV/ea.jpg About