I’m a photographer/writer/videographer based in Brooklyn. My photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, US News & World Report, Politiken (Copenhagen), and other publications. Sipa distributes my photographs. I’m now working on a film about a unit of US Marines I have embedded with 3 times since 2004.



I have written for Newsday, Newsweek International, Aperture, Fortune, The Village Voice, The City Sun, Emerge, The New York Times Magazine, Rutgers Magazine, US News & World Report, Entertainment Weekly, and Savoy. I am a member of the Photography & Imaging Department faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. I also lecture at The School of Visual Arts’ MFA Photography, Video & Related Media Program. From 2000 through 2002, I was a correspondent for CNN. I was a Staff Writer at Fortune from 1998 to 2000 and Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report for the two years prior to that. Before serving as US News’s China correspondent, I was an Assistant Editor on the magazines international desk, and a staff photographer for the magazine. I began my career in journalism as a fact-checker and freelance everyman at The Village Voice. I earned a BA in East Asian Studies from Brown University and an MFA in Photography from New York City’s School of Visual Arts. In the mid-1980s, I studied Chinese language and history at Nanjing University in the People’s Republic of China.  I am a Sagittarius.