For a Western photo journalist to be featured in the China Daily says a lot when the topic he writes about is China. For Tom Carter, who has written guest posts for iLook China, it is like a coming of age for a journalist to receive such recognition for his work.
The China Daily is the English language edition of the state-run media. In China, it is comparable to the London Times, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times or the San Francisco Chronicle. When I say it is comparable, the key to that description is “in China”.
The China Daily says of Tom’s work, “There is no single image that can adequately represent the diversity that is China. This is partly why Tom Carter’s 638-page tome of photographs taken during his tour of the country between 2006 and 2008 works so well.”
Photo of Tom Carter in China
“The goal was to portray China as it portrayed itself to me,” Carter says of his travels with his trusty Olympus Camedia C4000, a no-frills four-megapixel camera.
It seems both foreigners and Chinese are hungry for what Carter has to say about “all” of China.
Recently, Carter had an author event in Shanghai at a bar on the Bund where more than a hundred people came to hear him (paying a 65 yuan cover charge to boot) talk about his journey across China. There was standing room only with a line out the door.
Tom Carter’s book is China: Portrait of a People and is available in the United States through Amazon.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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