猪肉协会会长: 【焦点大图】中国：人物肖像

“中国的崛起是本世纪的故事” 大西洋月刊新推出的中国频道编辑- 马特Schiavenza写道，我们在21世纪对这个世界上最大的国家的覆盖范围及新途径不断扩大。本着这种精神，今天，我想向大家介绍摄影师汤姆·卡特。九年前，卡特专程从旧金山到中国，回应一份招聘启事，原来是一个骗局。他设法找到另一份教师工作，，走上一个56000公里旅途，穿越中国的33个省市，历时两年存了足够的钱。卡特背着相机-只是一部A 400万像素的卡片机-拍摄各种不同的景观和人物、建筑，在全国范围内捕获了一些令人惊叹的影像。然后，他收集了900张这些照片到一本书：《中国：人物肖像》。卡特写道，他的照片表明，“中国不仅是一个地方，一种人，而是有33个不同的区域，人口由56个不同的民族构成，每个民族有自己的语言，风俗和生活方式。” ，在大西洋月刊推出其新的中国频道这天，卡特在这里与大家分享一些他的画像。

China: Portrait of a People

“China’s rise is the story of the century,” writes Matt Schiavenza, editor of The Atlantic‘s newly launchedChina Channel – a new avenue for our expanding coverage of the world’s largest nation in the 21st century. In that spirit, today, I’d like to introduce photographer Tom Carter. Nine years ago, Carter traveled from San Francisco to China, responding to a job posting that turned out to be a scam. He managed to find another job as a teacher, and saved enough money to embark on a 56,000 km trip through all of China’s 33 provinces that lasted two years. Carrying a camera — just a a 4-megapixel point-and-shoot — Carter captured some amazing images of the widely varying landscape, people, and architecture across the nation. He then collected 900 of these photos into a book titled CHINA: Portrait of a People. Carter writes that his photos help to show that “China is not just one place, one people, but 33 distinct regions populated by 56 different ethnicities, each with their own languages, customs and lifestyles.” Carter was kind enough to share some of his portraits here, on the day that The Atlantic launches its new China Channel. [35 photos]

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Beijing maiden wearing a traditional qipao made in Beijing. (© Tom Carter, as seen in CHINA: Portrait of a People)

Traditional “dragon scale” tiled rooftops can still be found in Chongqing, the most industrialized city in western China. (© Tom Carter)

Hipster from Hunan’s capital city, Changsha. (© Tom Carter)

Rock formations of Wulingyuan National Park in northern Hunan. (© Tom Carter)

Elderly Jiangsu farmer in her field of rapeseed. (© Tom Carter)

Dalian’s famous Female Mounted Police Force, established 1994. (© Tom Carter)

Left: Fujian farmer lost in a tangle of squash vines. Right: Hip Tibetan youth, Sichuan. (© Tom Carter)

Maoist memorabilia shop in Hubei. (© Tom Carter)

Human remains from a Tibetan sky burial in northern Sichuan. (© Tom Carter)

Buddhist pilgrim family from Sichuan. (© Tom Carter)

Guards are stationed along Beijing’s subway platforms to enforce rules of etiquette. (© Tom Carter)

Left: Construction workers on bamboo scaffolding in ever-developing Shanghai. Right: The old and the new of Macau’s developing skyline.(© Tom Carter)

Langmusi, a sacred Buddhist pilgrimage destination in Gansu. (© Tom Carter)

Left: Miao ethnic minority tribeswoman in Hunan. Right: Manchurian man with a dog fur cap in Heilongjiang. (© Tom Carter)

Billboard defaced with stickers advertising jobs in wintery Liaoning. (© Tom Carter)

Left: Chongqing City, a dense cluster of apartment towers in China’s most populous municipality. Right: Tulou earth village of the Fujian Hakka people. (© Tom Carter)

Left: Young Uyghur girl wearing a traditional hijab headdress, Xinjiang. Right: 109-year-old man from a “Longevity Village” in western Guangxi, where all residents have lived till at least a hundred years of age. (© Tom Carter)

Young kung fu student at Shaolin Temple, Henan. (© Tom Carter)

Mongolian woman from Gegentala, Inner Mongolia. (© Tom Carter)

Left: Coal miners — one getting off shift and the other going on — at southern Shanxi. Right: Hong Yao ethnic minority women from northern Guangxi. (© Tom Carter)