Desertification in China
Pulitzer Center photojournalist Sean Gallagher talks to the Asia Society about his reporting projects on China's environmental problems and his experience as a freelance journalist in China.
Photographer Sean Gallagher's 12-page photo-essay 'China's Growing Sands' is featured in the April 2010 edition of National Geographic China.
Beijing, China — China's poverty-stricken northwest is swathed in sand. The deserts are creeping over ever larger areas, in part because of weather changes linked to climate change.
Fighting the war against sand - Outlook talks to the photojournalist who has travelled across the spreading deserts of China where more and more people are becoming environmental refugees - it's no
View the slideshow as it appears in The New York Times.
I returned from my six weeks of travel with about 2,500 images; I have never been a prolific shooter, probably because I started out shooting slide film and knowing the cost of each frame.
Sean Gallagher joined a panel discussion with China Radio International on Thursday, July 30th, to speak about desertification in China. The discussion ran for an hour, from 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Sean Gallagher does a one-on-one interview about his work on desertification in China. Three days later, he joined a panel on the same station to discuss the issue with experts.
In April 2009, British photojournalist Sean Gallagher traveled 4000km through Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu and Xinjiang documenting China's struggle with desertification.
The Shapotou desert resort is the jewel in the tourism crown for Ningxia, China's poorest province.
The Taklamakan desert is a place of such epic proportions and intimidating size that its name in the local Uygur language translates as 'You can go in, but you will never come out'.
Sandwiched unforgivingly between the Tengger desert and the Badain Jaran desert, surface water has long since dried up in the dry and ravaged Minqin Oasis in Gansu Province.
Located in the heart of China's poorest province, Ningxia, the town is surrounded on all sides by arid and unproductive land, however for 200,000 'environmental refugees' this harsh place is now home...
The Inner Mongolian grasslands in northern China were once a place of traditional, nomadic life where groups of farmers were free to roam the vast expanses of grassland.
It is estimated that nearly 40 cities have been abandoned as a result of desertification in Northwest China in the past 2000 years.
Sandstorms are one of the most visually distinct phenomena associated with the problem of desertification.
Desertification is the gradual transformation of arable and habitable land into desert, normally caused by climate change or the destructive use of land.
During my 1-year paid internship at Magnum Photos London in 2004-5, the then deputy director Hamish Crooks gave me and fellow interns some simple yet important advice on how to find newsworthy stor
Desertification in northern and western China is increasing year on year, fueled by a combination of nationwide drought, improper use of land and global climate change.
There are some places in the world where you don't want to get a flat tire: a 2 1/2-hour drive on dirt tracks into the middle of the desert, with no cell phone coverage and no hint of civilization,
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Sean Gallagher is a British photographer and videographer, based in China. Graduating in Zoology from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England, he subsequently changed career direction into...