Another Great Leap Forward

In April of this year the New York Times assigned me to explore in a series of 20 photographs the new Chinese leadership’s dramatic, history-making plan to turn 250 million farmers into city dwellers in the coming 12 years.

Little besides dots of nomadic tribes and spectres of Soviet…

Little besides dots of nomadic tribes and spectres of Soviet concentration camps haunt the icy desert of the Russian Arctic. But deep beneath the permafrost lie untold treasures: a cache of oil and gas so big it could sustain a fiscally-troubled Russia for decades. http://www.justinjin.com/work/reportage/arctic/

Even when I travel as a tourist, my eye is…

Even when I travel as a tourist, my eye is constantly focused on the people around me, imagining their challenges, their aspirations, and how they connect to the landscape that surrounds them. this photographie was shot during a travel reportage for Geo Magazine. http://www.justinjin.com/work/reportage/travels/