Alan Chin is an American photographer, professor, and writer. Since 1996, he has worked in China, the former

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...

, and more recently in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

and

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as a freelance photojournalist. Domestically, Chin followed the historic trail of the

Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the Unite ...

, documented the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and covered the

2008 United States presidential election The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator f ...

. Chin's career as a photojournalist began when he photographed the Tiananmen Square crackdown that began the night of June 3, 1989. Chin is a contributing photographer to ''

Newsweek ''Newsweek'' is an American weekly online news magazine co-owned 50 percent each by Dev Pragad, its president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis, who has no operational role at ''Newsweek''. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely ...

'' and ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

'', editor and

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographers As in other ...

at ''BagNews'', and the Managing Director of ''Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA).'' He is also an adjunct professor for photojournalism at the

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism s ...

. Chin is currently writing and photographing a book on his ancestral region of Taishan and is a founding partner of Red Hook Editions. Chin's work in

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

earned him a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 and 2000. He has also won the 2017 Knight Foundation Detroit Arts Challenge. His work can be found in the collections of the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

and the

Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers with a major renovation and expansion project comple ...

. Chin was born and raised in New York City's Chinatown.

References

External links

* ''BagNews'' essays on
“The 9/11 Decade”: Beyond Pushpins On A CalendarThe Killing of Bin LadenGhosts of Suez and SrebrenicaWaiting For Glenn Beck
an
Broke-Beck Mountains of Madness
* ''New York Times''
Lens Blog essay on Toishanas part of Facing Change Documenting AmericaFacing Change covering the Fourth of July
* Interviews with Miki Johnson for Resolve Livebooks o
covering the 2008 Presidential Campaign

Eight Diagrams interview

Photographers from New York City American people of Chinese descent Living people The New York Times visual journalists Year of birth missing (living people) American expatriates in Yugoslavia American expatriates in China American expatriates in Iraq American expatriates in Afghanistan American expatriates in Egypt American expatriates in Tunisia {{US-photographer-stub