Photos and text by Joseph Levendusky The Forbidden City moat. The Forbidden City is the touchstone for all things Chinese. Shot between August and November 2010, Beijing Journal is intended as a document of Beijing at this frenetic juncture in its history, when the city is at the height of transformation from the insular old Beijing of the dynasties and the rule of Mao, to that of a fully connected global capital. Rather than an exhaustive study, this work is intended to be a more personal record of the glimpses of Beijing life that revealed themselves in my explorations of the city. Most singularly, I was captivated by the vanishing traditional streetscapes…
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A Day in Macau
Photos and text by Joseph Levendusky Eighteen months ago on a business trip to Hong Kong, with my work visa expiring, I needed to exit and re-enter Hong Kong as a tourist. I went to nearby Macau to spend a day. Just an hour’s trip by catamaran ferry across the Pearl River Delta, Macau is a separate Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China and a city-state as is Hong Kong. A former Portuguese colony, it is imbued with a distinctive amalgam of Asian and Iberian influences. A passport is needed to enter and you will be greeted by signage in curious smatterings of Chinese, Portuguese and English. The new Macau–the Las Vegas of…
