china photographer
Chengdu, known for its relaxed atmosphere, has become a hub for youth culture and creative industries, drawing young people away from China’s more pressured megacities like Beijing and Shanghai.
Despite increasing government control over cultural events, Chengdu retains its reputation for tolerance and laid-back living, making it a unique cultural center in China. I spent some days in the city try to capture that.
As Shanghai has been locked down I have started to photograph friends of mine and other people that I have never met, remotely using a video-call. The absurdity of this project is that we all live in the same city, Shanghai and yet we are not able to meet in real life because of the harsh lockdown that Shanghai is undergoing.
I have asked to all my subject to share their thoughts written in a paper or a piece of their diary, here some part of the portfolio published on Liberation
Some photo of the recent assignment that I photographed for Le Monde have been selected for "The Year in Review" of Le Monde
Another work on Evergrande in China shot for Le Monde and ended up in different publications such as Le Temps
I was asked to work on a story by The Wall Street Journal about Evergrande default and how intense building happened by Evergrande in provincial cities in China.
I have been asked. by New York Times to photograph the traditional way of making Mooncakes, the iconic Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival treat.
Last month FIVE media asked me to go to Hangzhou to photograph Rob, a young entrepreneur and founder of MI Terro a startup company on a mission to cut food waste and fight plastic pollution at the same time turning milk waste into fibers for clothes. Here some of the photos.
Earlier in June I shot a story for Liberation in Nanchang, about 600 km away from Shanghai, where the so called Red Tourism is became a sensation as there Chinese Communist Party celebrated the 100th years
I have photographed Vincent Ricard for L’equipe in Shanghai, China for their story about former tennis ball boys, here some outtakes along with the tear sheet.
A recent assignment for Les Echos Week End for a story about paper straw and Lou Zhongping, founder of Saton and also known as straw king took me to Yiwu, not far from Shanghai.
Here some outtakes along with the tear sheets:
Earlier last month 51, the FC Bayern Munich official magazine, asked me to photograph the Bayern office in Shanghai here some images.
My project about the LGBT community featured on L'oeil De La Photographie
I have photographed last year on assignment Jose Blanco, VP of Guess China.
The Wall Street Journal asked me to photograph Lucas Britto in Shanghai for their story about Millennials and investments.
Some months ago I was assigned to photograph for IKEA a project about privacy and how people cope with that in Mumbai. I have spent a day photographing Junaid and the neighbourhood where he lives.
Raul Ariano is a Shanghai based photographer available worldwide for assignment.
Tear-sheet of my assignment for The Wall Street Journal about Starbucks in China.
RAUL ARIANO FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Last week I was assigned by The Globe and Mail to make a portrait done of Raefer Wallis, a Canadian former architect is the CEO and creator of "Reset", a platform that monitors real time indoor health data in buildings.
Raul Ariano is a photographer based in Shanghai, China and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.