by Ray Ally on January 19, 2009
Photos: Ray Ally
All across Beijing red lanterns have been appearing in the streets, offices, restaurants, hotels and residential apartments to signal in the coming of Chinese New Year. Red lanterns play a special part in Chinese customs signifying, luck, happiness and prosperity for the coming year.
Chinese New Year or Spring Festival (as it is more [...]
by Ray Ally on January 12, 2009
Photo: Ray Ally
Eight months to the day (May 12th 2008), a powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude rocked Sichuan province in China, killing tens of thousands and making millions homeless. If every picture tells a story then these pictures tell 69,227 stories – one for each of the people that died.
As 2008 draws to a close [...]