Chinese painter, illustrator and street artist Cheng Yingjie (a.k.a. Hua Tunan) has created an extraordinary painting called “Night Owl” that makes perfect use of his signature colorful and chaotic style. Yingjie’s stunning and dynamic owl figure seems to materialize magically out of a chaotic cloud of splashes and splashes of colorful paint. Like many other […]
Photographer Benny Lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in Hong Kong’s subdivided flats, recording the lives of these hidden communities. ‘I’m still alive and yet I am already surrounded by four coffin planks!’ … Hong Kong’s cage home tenants. Image Credit: All photographs : Benny Lam. Coffin cubicles, cage homes, in Hong Kong Cage […]
Although giant pandas spend most of the day eating and sleeping, they love to climb and play. Here a year-old cub explores the treetops in an enclosure at the Wolong center of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, where captive-bred pandas are trained to live in the wild. If the animal […]
Villagers play basketball on a court built inside a Karst cave at Xinchun village in Bijie, Guizhou province, China, on 12 August, 2019. The court was built inside the cave in order to save arable land in 2018. The cave can accommodate 1,000 people to watch a game. Image Credit: Photograph by Qu Honglun / […]
Tianzi Mountain is located in Zhangjiajie in the Hunan Province of China. Tianzi Mountain provides stunning views of peaks, which rise one after another. It is known as ‘the Monarch of the Peak Forest’. It covers an area of 67 square kilometers (about 16,550 acres), and the highest peak is 1,262 meters (about 4,140 feet) […]
Chinese Kazakh eagle hunters sit on horseback as they travel to a local competition in the mountains of Qinghe County, northwestern China Image Credit: Photographs by John Hutchinson for MailOnline The festival, organised by the local hunting community, is part of an effort to promote and grow traditional hunting practices for new generations in the […]
This glass-bottomed bridge in China’s Zhangjiajie National Forest Park almost a mile up a mountain. The vertiginous glass walkways provide a dizzying affect and a possible feeling of vertigo and are becoming increasingly popular among thrill-seeking tourists. See more great photos via Amazing photos from around the world in 2016 – SFGate
The beautiful Austrian village of Hallstatt looks like the picture-perfect postcard image of a traditional European town full of gabled homes and historic churches. Now this lovely view can also be found in China where an exact replica of the village has been built as a high-end housing development. Austria’s Hallstatt has a rich history […]
With raindrops no longer falling, this street in Beijing, China, hums back to life under the glow of neon signs. Your Shot photographer Caue Ferraz took this photo in the neighborhood around Jingshan Park, a 57-acre green space with views into the Forbidden City. This photo was submitted to Your Shot, our storytelling community. Source: […]
It’s an open-air show about life in Lijiang long ago, using Jade Dragon Snow Mountain as a backdrop Synergy of Humanity by EC Tong. Photograph by Eng Chung Tong Last autumn, I travelled with a group of friends from Malaysia to Yunnan province in China. It is a beautiful region, significantly less polluted than cities […]
