Yan Cong

My partner and I returned to Beijing from New York in late March and did a mandatory 14-day quarantine in a hotel in Beijing. The experience was surreal. We were put into separate room, and it was a long-distance relationship across a hallway. Room and bored: One couple’s 14-day quarantine in a Beijing hotel They returned from overseas and were confined to separate hotel rooms for...

Read the interactive feature with video from Beimeng Fu, Megumi Li, text from Gerry Shih, here: For China’s delivery drivers, it's big risks and bigger pressures to keep the nation fed It’s the gig economy set to the tempo of an unforgiving algorithm — with crashes, sprains and even death on the road.

I got a rare chance to photograph actress Fan Bingbing, who disappeared for four months last year in a tax scandal: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/world/asia/fan-bingbing-comeback-scandal.html The Forbidden City has opened 50% to the public in the past few years. I spent a day in the former royal compound to illustrate this story:...

I did a story about China's feminist movement with writer Amy Hawkins for the Swedish magazine RE:PUBLIC.   FEMINISTERNA SOM VÄLJER STRID FRAMFÖR TEBJUDNING Kinas regering har trakasserat, förföljt och låst in landets feminister på mentalsjukhus. Men aktivisterna fortsätter att mötas i hemliga lokaler och...

Back in March, I did two assignments for magazine Grazia France on the feminist movement in China and live streaming industry in China. Here's the tearsheet from the printed magazine.

My photo story about China's "Xi Dada" is in Topic's "Father Figure" issue   Daddy Dearest Mao’s face is still everywhere in modern China. But now Xi Jinping is ready for his close-up.

I photographed a few stories for The Washington Post lately. If you haven't read the extremely moving story of Grandpa Han, I recommend you read this bitter-sweet story written by Emily Rauhala. He was one of millions of Chinese seniors growing old alone. So he put himself up for adoption.   An entire generation in China is aging without enough support....

I'm super excited to know that the story made it to the front page. Check out the story and more photos in the link below. A Catholic bishop and his rural Chinese parish worry about a deal between Beijing and the Vatican    Would compromise unite the Church, or put the faithful in Beijing's crosshairs?

Before the ivory ban went into full effect in China, I photographed in a ivory carving workshop on assignment for the washington post. Read the article here .

I illustrated this story about the new bird flu virus H7N9 for the latest issue of Smithsonian Magazine.  Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? Hundreds there have already died of a new bird flu, putting world health authorities on high alert

My long-term project, "The Price of Happiness," about the life of Buntha, a Cambodian woman who was trafficked to China as a bride, was exhibited at DOK17, a documentary photography festival in Fredrikstad, Norway this month. The project was partially supported by the Fritt Ord Foundation student grant.

I met Jonathan Blaustein at the NYT Portolio Review in April. He mentioned my projects in his blog post " The Best Work I Saw at the NYT Portfolio Review " on A Photo Editor this week. See my multimedia piece about the trafficking of Cambodian brides in China here . Take a sneak peek at my ongoing project about Chongli and 2022 Winter Olympic Games here .

I recently produced a podcast for Multimedia Week. I sat down with Vietnamese photographer Dat Vu and Cambodia-based Italian photographer Thomas Cristofoletti and chatted about photo and journalism collectives. Listen here , and please share and subscribe if you enjoy the episode!

I had the opportunity to speak about my on-going project on Cambodian brides trafficked to China to a very engaged group of audience during Ruom Hangout, an afternoon event at Angkor Photo Festival in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Although the project is mainly shot in China, I have always felt the importance to bring this work to Cambodia to raise awareness of and to prevent bride trafficking. Photos...

My on-going project about Cambodian brides trafficked to China was shown at Angkor Photo Festival night projection on December 4, 2016. (photos by Gareth Bright)

I'm incredibly honored to announce that I have been nominated for the 2016 Joop Swart Masterclass !

I was extremely privleged to have been one of the 27 participants of the professional workshop of Angkor Photo Festival in Siem Reap, Cambodia in December 2015. One of the photos I produced during the workshop is featured in "Hankyoreh21," a weekly in South Korea. Link  here .

As a contributor to the Instagram feed  @eyesonchinaproject , I had the pleasure to speak about this project and what social media platforms have brought about for photographers in China. Read the article and watch the video here: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-34485463?SThisFB (Photo: Kids in the bus after school, in Changying, the outskirt of Beijing. My latest post...