Justin Jin

Photographer. Explorer. Storyteller

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      • Steel’s Rebirth – Sweden
      • Harnessing the Sun – Sahara Desert
      • Youths – The Netherlands
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      • Beer, Re-Imagined – Belgium
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      • The Other Humans – Asia and Europe
      • Tea Spirit Guardians – China
      • Champagne Master’s Secret – France and Japan
      • Threads of Time – China
      • Gift of Love – China
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      • Zone of Absolute Discomfort – Russia
      • A Giant Shrinks – China
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      • UNEP – Environment
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      • Oxfam – Climate Disaster
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National Geographic Magazine

Into the Forests of the World’s Finest Tea

High in China’s Yunnan Province, where ancient tea trees stretch their branches toward the heavens, Justin discovers a remarkable story of indigenous tea growers. This photo-text journey takes us deep into Jingmai Mountain, where a community’s unwavering devotion to their ancestral practices has transformed millennium-old trees into “drinkable gold” and a UNESCO World Heritage. Their story reminds us that some treasures grow stronger with time — if we stay true to the mission.

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