P.K. 14 frontman and music producer Yang Haisong, photographed in his Beijing studio in 2012 for The World of Chinese magazine.
Bored student. Photo illustration for The World of Chinese, July 2012.
Lei Jun, lead singer of Beijing skinhead band Misandao and unlikely proprietor of local restaurant Noodle In. Photographed for The World of Chinese in June 2012.
Lue Zhiqiang, aka Gouzi, owner of legendary Beijing livehouse Yugong Yishan, photographed in front of the venue in 2012 for City Weekend.
Street musician Ge Feng at the Chaoyangmen underpass where he often plays. Photographed for The World of Chinese in 2012.
Underpass singer Wang Gengtian at Dongsishitiao, Beijing. Photographed for a feature on Beijing street musicians published in The World of Chinese magazine in 2012.
DJ Eddie Lv, photographed down a side street of Nanluoguxiang, Beijing in 2012.
Documentary filmmaker Wu Wenguang in his Beijing studio in 2009, as captured during a shoot for Wallpaper* magazine.
Chef Omar Maseroli at work in his second Beijing restaurant, Fiume. Photographed for City Weekend in January 2015.
Juju of Little Fish performing at the MIDI Music Festival in Beijing, May 2012.
Groundbreaking Chinese rocker Cui Jian in a rare Beijing concert, August 23, 2008.
Peaches in Beijing at Yugong Yishan on April 24, 2010.
"Jesus walked on water, but Peaches walks on you." Peaches at Yugong Yishan in Beijing, April 24, 2010.
St. Vincent performs at Yugong Yishan in Beijing in 2010.
Pet Conspiracy performs at Yugong Yishan in Beijing, April 2010.
Jens Lekman at Mao Livehouse in Beijing, 2010.
Singer Hao Yun at the 2012 Beijing MIDI Music Festival.
The Buzzcocks play Yugong Yishan, Beijing 2010.
Iron Kite lead singer Yu Yang on stage during the 2012 MIDI Music Festival in Beijing.
Eddie Lv at his party The Loop in Beijing, December 2014.
Photographs from Kashgar and Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, September 2009.
A boy walks the back alleys of Kashgar, Xinjiang, in September 2009. Many areas like this one were slated for demolition, to be replaced by more earthquake-proof but less characteristic buildings.
A woman takes shelter from the sun at Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang, September 2009.
Armed officers put down their riot shields and break for lunch in Kashgar, Xinjiang, September 2009. Their constant presence followed riots in Urumqi in July of that year. At the time of this photo, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region had no internet access and phone calls beyond the region were restricted.
A boy takes a rest in Kashgar, Xinjiang, September 2009.
A man molds a silver vessel in a market in Kashgar, Xinjiang, September 2009.
Older buildings in Kasghar sit half-razed behind blue barriers in September 2009.
Distinctive architecture slated for demolition in September 2009 in Kashgar, Xinjiang.
Armed patrol trucks move towards the People's Square in Kasghar, Xinjiang, September 2009.
A man prepares traditional naan in a kiln oven in Kasghar, Xinjiang, September 2009.
Hats await heads in a Kashgar mosque, September 2009.
Children play with toy guys at the Kasghar bazaar, September 2009.
A young girl assumes gristly responsibility overseeing a meat stall at the Kasghar bazaar, September 2009.
A faded poster in an Urumqi market displays mug shots.
Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, lacks the architecture that distinguishes the region. Instead, it could be a double for any major city in the country's east.
A glimpse of some of Beijing's premier tattoo artists and their clients.
A man gets an eagle tattooed on his thigh during a tattoo demo at an electronic music festival in Beijing's 798 Art District, in May 2012.
Taiwanese tattoo artist Diao An works in the studio of his former apprentice in Beijing in July 2012. Photos for City Weekend.
Xiao Long of Long Xiu Tang tattoo studio in Beijing's 798 Art District works on his own apprentice's arm. Photo for a July 2012 piece for City Weekend.
Xiao Long refers to a print-out photograph of Salvador Dali as he tattoos his apprentice's arm in his studio in Beijing, July 2012. Photo for City Weekend Beijing.
A client distracts himself with a cigarette as work begins on a full-body tattoo in the 798 Art District of Beijing. Photos for a July 2012 issue of City Weekend.
Li Yang of Beijing's New Tattoo Studio tattoos the arm of a young woman in July 2012. Once the mark of gangsters and other unsavory characters, tattoos have become widely accepted in modern urban China. Photograph for City Weekend.
Celebrity tattooist Yang Zhou begins work on a back piece at his Beijing studio in July 2012. Photo for City Weekend.
Moments in the life of a vast, ever-changing city.
Men fly kites at the base of the restored city wall near Chongwenmen, in Beijing, in 2008.
Rain streaks the windows of a Beijing bus arriving at Qianmen on a wet spring day in April 2012.
A baby wearing a traditional open-backed bib has the advantage in a Fengtai district wet market on a sweltering summer day in Beijing, 2011.
The recently completed CCTV headquarters rise up beneath a window washer in Beijing, 2010.
A sudden downpour at rush hour on June 23, 2011, brought traffic to a standstill when Beijing's drainage systems couldn't keep up, flooding the capital's roads.
Serious metal lovers abound at Beijing's MIDI Music Festival, 2012.
A woman gives her husband a haircut in the hallway of their Beijing apartment on a hot summer morning in 2011.
Pigeons in a coop in Beijing's Fengtai district huddle close to their mother, 2011.
An elderly man in Beijing displays one of the tiny, featherweight kites he flies in Taoranting Park before putting it back in its traveling tin.
Just one of many selfies taken at the 2012 INTRO electronic music festival in Beijing.
A young seamstress sews curtains in south Beijing on a spring day in 2011.
A security guard takes a break at the 2012 MIDI electronic music festival.
A man sleeps beneath a painting of the Water Cube and Beijing Olympics near Qianmen.
On a summer day, the towering lamps provide some of the only shade available in Tiananmen Square.
Lighting strikes the south of Beijing during a summer storm in 2010.
Left: A woman goes through the photos on her camera at the 2012 MIDI Music Festival.
Right: An enthusiastic crowd surfer is hoisted into the air.
The Temple of Heaven is painstakingly restored and repainted regularly, while the residential building on the right, which once stood in Chaoyang district, was razed to make way for the expansion of Beijing's Central Business District.
The tiny ladder of a fire engine is no match for the flames that consumed the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Beijing on February 9, 2009.
Themed "PM2.5" for the size of the hazardous pollutant particles that can enter the bloodstream, the 2012 MIDI Music Festival took place under appropriately hazy skies in Beijing.
An employee touches up the wax version of singer Jay Chou's face at Madame Tussauds in Beijing before the doors open on a July 2015 morning.
Favorite photos from around the world.
A fearless child stops the progress of two wrestlers in Inner Mongolia as they walk the ring before a match. August 2009.
A game of chase at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, 2008.
Within the Angkor Wat complex, Cambodia.
The bridge to Bantay Srei, in the Angkor complex, Cambodia.
An overweight monkey awaits a handout in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Nature slowly reclaims damaged buildings in the once war-ravaged resort town of Kep, Cambodia.
Cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan.
Saiho-ji Garden, Kyoto, Japan.
Cameras at the ready, spectators await a fake snowfall inside the Odaiba Venusfort mall just days before Christmas in Tokyo.
A monk passes through the crowds of shoppers in bustling downtown Tokyo.
A fire engine's hose gives children a place to cool off during the hot Fourth of July festivities on the riverfront in St Louis, Missouri.
In 2011, two friends and I set up a darkroom in the simple kitchen of a tiny Beijing studio. We had limited resources (and practically no heat) but enjoyed developing cheap rolls of Lucky film and seeing the results. In many ways, these images capture the feel of the city in winter better than crisp digital images ever could.
A snow-dusted tangle of sanlunche.
A woman serves a steaming dish in an unheated restaurant.
Cabbages, purchased at the onset of winter, are stored outside and gradually make their way into soups and stews during the coldest months.
Melted snow leaves the pavement wet at the Drama Academy in Beijing's Nanluoguxiang.
A small but fierce dog guards his stretch of hutong while his humans play cards.
Small shoes hang out to dry with the laundry on a sunny winter day in Beijing's Dongcheng district.
A man bikes through the hutongs with his wares of candied haw, or tanghulu.
A man catches up on the news outside a bakery in Chongwenmen.
Buildings disappear in the low-hanging haze that characterizes Beijing.
Melting snow leaves the hutongs damp and market stalls shrouded in Dongcheng district.
