John Gittings shares a selection of photos taken in China while reporting for The Guardian from 1978 to 2003.

Twenty-five years ago—almost to the day—Shanghai in Images took off. With seed funding from the France-Berkeley Fund, my comrade-in-idea(l)s, Yeh Wen-hsin, and I launched the first online database of Chinese historical photographs with two...

John Gittings shares some memories of China and comments on visual images being no more immune from ambiguities than written words are.

Malo, “Quand j’ai développé ma première pellicule, ça a été la révélation. Des petits anges sont descendus du ciel, jouant de la trompette au-dessus de ma cuve !“