Yan Cong

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Location: Beijing

Nationality: China

Biography: Yan Cong (b.1991) is an independent photographer based in Beijing, where she was born and raised. She focuses most of her long-term projects on women’s issues, rural China, and China’s relations with its neighbors. In 2015, Yan was... read on

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New episode on Multimedia Week podcast

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Dec 28, 2016

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!

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By Yan Cong —

Quarantine Story published in Washington Post

By Yan Cong / beijing — My partner and I returned to Beijing from New York in late March and did a mandatory 14-day quarantine in a..

May 30, 2020

Logan Nonfiction Fellowship

By Yan Cong / rensselaerville — I'm spending five weeks at Carey Institute to edit my long-term project "Chongli 2022" as a..

Feb 24, 2020

Media News Spotlight

Story about food delivery in China on Washington Post A1

By Yan Cong — Read the interactive feature with video from Beimeng Fu, Megumi Li, text from Gerry Shih, here: For..

Dec 1, 2019

"Chongli 2022" exhibited at Indian Photo Festival

By Yan Cong — As part of World Press Photo's 6x6 exhibition at Indian Photo Festival, some photos from my on-going..

Oct 7, 2019

Recent assignments for NYT and Washington Post

By Yan Cong / beijing — I got a rare chance to photograph actress Fan Bingbing, who disappeared for four months last year in a tax..

Aug 2, 2019

China's Feminist Movement for RE:PUBLIC

By Yan Cong / Beijing — I did a story about China's feminist movement with writer Amy Hawkins for the Swedish magazine..

Nov 26, 2018

Assignments for Grazia France

By Yan Cong / Beijing — Back in March, I did two assignments for magazine Grazia France on the feminist movement in China and live..

Nov 26, 2018

Assignment for Topic's "Father Figure" issue

By Yan Cong — My photo story about China's "Xi Dada" is in Topic's "Father Figure" issue..

Jun 18, 2018

Recent Assignments for The Washington Post

By Yan Cong — I photographed a few stories for The Washington Post lately. If you haven't read the extremely moving story..

Jun 5, 2018

My photo from a Chinese Catholic village is on the front page of today's Washington Post

By Yan Cong — I'm super excited to know that the story made it to the front page. Check out the story and more photos in..

Mar 12, 2018

Assignment for the Washington Post

By Yan Cong — Before the ivory ban went into full effect in China, I photographed in a ivory carving workshop on..

Feb 22, 2018

Assignment for Smithsonian Magazine November issue

By Yan Cong — I illustrated this story about the new bird flu virus H7N9 for the latest issue of Smithsonian Magazine. Is..

Nov 1, 2017

Exhibitions News

Project "The Price of Happiness" exhibited at DOK17 in Norway

By Yan Cong — My long-term project, "The Price of Happiness," about the life of Buntha, a Cambodian woman who was..

Jun 26, 2017

Projects featured by the photo blog "A Photo Editor"

By Yan Cong — I met Jonathan Blaustein at the NYT Portolio Review in April. He mentioned my projects in his blog post "..

May 28, 2017

Ruom Hangout at Angkor Photo Festival

By Yan Cong — I had the opportunity to speak about my on-going project on Cambodian brides trafficked to China to a very..

Dec 28, 2016

Angkor Photo Festival

By Yan Cong — My on-going project about Cambodian brides trafficked to China was shown at Angkor Photo Festival night..

Dec 28, 2016

Nominated for the 2016 Joop Swart Masterclass

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

Mar 22, 2016

Photo featured in South Korean Magazine

By Yan Cong — I was extremely privleged to have been one of the 27 participants of the professional workshop of Angkor..

Jan 9, 2016

@eyesonchinaproject on BBC News!

By Yan Cong — As a contributor to the Instagram feed @eyesonchinaproject , I had the pleasure to speak about this..

Oct 12, 2015

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