纽约时报委派我以20个系列图片探究新一届中国领导人重大的历史性计划，即在未来12年里，把2.5亿农民转变为城市居民。 我意识到主题的广度，做了精心的准备：阅读成堆的书籍、专题文章和研究论文，并与政策的支持者和评论者探讨。甚至在来中国前，我一直在做关于城市化的梦。 最大的挑战是在图片上反映出问题的复杂性和严重性。作为一名纪实摄影师，在我投射的评估上面，我也肩负着对读者的责任。从一个宏观经济学家、一个农民的观点来看，形势是十分不同的，而我尽量以我的方式做到周全和灵通。 为了找到个人化的故事，帮助读者理解和感受宏观经济决策的重量，我花了两个星期流转于城市和农村地区。 我计划将这项工作持续下去。 Picture Story: Personalizing China’s Urbanization
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.
There’s a popular tendency to ask a professional photographer about equipment. While it is much more challenging to find out the image-maker’s motivation, cultural perspective, conceptual framework and philosophical cultivation, the camera does matter. As a photojournalist, I need to be on top of fast-changing and varied situations on assignment, from battling Arctic snow and getting soaked in sea spray on geographic expeditions to running with a rioting crowd to capturing exquisite nightlife photos under extreme low-light conditions. There’s no escaping, only a high-end digital SLR would do. I chose Canon over Nikon, simply because it is more widely available, …
Backstage of the Martell advertising campaign: http://www.justinjin.com/backstage/the-making-of-martells-2013-china-campaign/
China is embarking on a vast program of urbanisation: http://www.justinjin.com/work/publications/china-embarking-on-vast-program-of-urbanization/
Shielded from rapid Chinese development by a cascade of steep mountains, the lush village of Dimen has kept centuries-old Dong minority traditions alive. But as highways and tunnels encroach, the future of the village is at a crossroads. http://www.justinjin.com/work/reportage/village/
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/
Mesmerized by both the incredible light and the medieval darkness that surround Russia and its people, I stayed until 2011 photographing everyone from the president and billionaires to criminals and the down-and-out. http://www.justinjin.com/work/reportage/rising/
Creating portraits is alchemy for me. While by definition they are posed, both by the photographer and the subjects, I aim to tell authentic stories about people and their relationships to their environments. http://www.justinjin.com/work/reportage/portraits/
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/