Alex Hofford is the British photojournalist who captured the interesting pictures you see here. Each of them come from a different category of images featured in his portfolio on the web at www.alexhoffordphotography.com.
As one would expect from a former snooty imperialist Brit, Sir Hofford Alex operates mostly out of Hong Kong. However, his work has taken him around around China (and beyond), much of which have been published in obscure publications such as The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, The Observer, and Time Magazine.
We don’t expect you to be familiar with such publications, so we’re throwing up a few samples of his work to lure you over to his blog to check out hundreds (if not thousands) of beautiful peeks into life in China spanning a broad spectrum of subject matter ranging from the environment, industry, and the usual socio-political issues.
China’s oh-so-scary security forces, apparently taking a break during the Olympics. Be sure to put your mouse over Alex’s images in his portfolio for descriptions and context.
Gasp! Caged dogs and smiling rural Chinese folk smoking. Combined, this is recipe for an attracting a flood of animal lovers cum Chinese-haters from Facebook. Psst, Alex!
Pretty self-explanatory this one.
That line-worker doesn’t seem to be amused with Alex snapping her mug (she’s definitely no iPhone Girl)…but that’s a lot of red Porsche Caymens and White Audi TTs.
Be sure to visit Alex’s website and spend an hour or afternoon browsing his work. One, he’s kinda lonely and wants the company. Two, a picture is worth a thousand words and all that. Three, seriously, it is through good photographs and good photographers that we normal folk literally have the opportunity to “see” more of this incredibly large world.
Oh, and he covers weird and silly stuff too…like cosplayers.
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TIME’s Bryan Walsh points a finger at China for “seiz[ing] the moral high ground” during climate talks last week and warns that the “U.S. … might get lapped.”
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A review and comparison of well-known English-language blogs about China that emphasize translation of original Chinese news, information, and content. Which is the best? The worst?
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CNR’s Weekly Review highlights some of the most interesting and can’t miss blog posts from the English China blogosphere. This week: May 16-22, 2009.
China Criticized For Seizing Moral High Ground On Environment 
Great Translators: China Blogs That Translate Chinese Content 
China’s Youth, Typical Tourists, Expat Blues, Education, & USA! 
Ouch! Thanks for posting…
was lurking around, saw your photos, awesome olympic security forces shot (am talking about the photo not the context or whatever issues)
you did bought the canines’ liberation after the shoot? (yeah, now am talking about the puppies rights)
Thanks for your kind comments.
Yes, I bought the dogs their freedom, how did you guess? The great thing was I was then able to re-export them to a dog farm in North Korea for a huge profit.
Alex
would you do that to lassie, patrasche, goofy & snoopy?
Without a shadow of a doubt, yes.
okay, maybe i shouldn’t have included goofy, would you still?
Definitely Goofy. I loathe Disney.
Hey Kai Pan,
Check out my new blog entry on e-waste ‘recycling’ in Guiyu.
http://www.alexhoffordphotography.com/
And don’t worry about all that ‘lost in translation stuff’ with your other posters on the Urumqi post. ‘Experiments’ and ‘rhetorical questions’ are obviously not the way to go, so don’t worry yourself too much about it. You only want intelligent people on your site anyway, right!?
Alex
LoL, oh you rib me so! BTW, loved the exchange above between you and zandie. As for the commenters of the Urumqi post, mwuahaha, I’ve got them where I want them now! Actually, though, Elliott and I want all sorts of people on our site. We like to collect them.
Like the specimens that they are.