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From a boudoir draped in lights, a 32-year-old woman operates her own brothel. Prostitution is legal in Hong Kong, but sole proprietorship is the only kind allowed. Photo: Mark Leong

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Mark Leong is part of a group exhibition at Droga5 for the upcoming Chinese New Year!

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Nat Geo photog shoots China project with only a prerelease iPhone 6s Plus

Nat Geo photog shoots China project with only a prerelease iPhone 6s Plus

“In 1989, Sanjiang was a dusty hill town in the southwest Chinese province of Guangxi,” Mark Leong reports for National Geographic. “It was known for its covered wooden bridges but didn’t have many visitors. When my 23-year-old self stretched his legs after a bumpy five-hour bus ride, it felt like high noon at a Wild West outpost—with horse carts, Dong minority women wearing embroidered outfits,…

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FLOORED: A Level-headed Response to the New Residential Life Proposal

A second open letter published on USP Life! this morning, this time from some members of the 2nd House Committee, republished on TCR

In a second open letter written about the new residential life proposal, several House Captains of the 2nd House Committee respond to the issue. It was originally posted on USP Life! this morning in a Facebook post, which can be found here.

The Cinnamon Roll is a platform for all USP students to air their opinions and thoughts on all kinds of things. If you have an opinion about this particular…

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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."--George Soros

Since 1998 the Open Society Foundations' commitment to documentary photography and its role in revealing wider global issues has been made manifest through its Moving Walls exhibition. The 21st installment opened last week in New York, and will continue later this year on to Washington, DC and London.

The five photographers represented in Moving Walls 21--Shannon Jensen, Mark Leong, Nikos Pilos, João Pina, and Diana Markosian--are a diverse lot, but their work shares a commonality of compassion and concern for people and their plights. Whether it's Sudanese refugees, Hong Kongers under Chinese rule, the legacy of Operation Condor, the collapse of Greek industry, or the lives of young women in Chechnya, the commitment to sharing these stories is impressive.

These images of shoes from Shannon Jensen's series Long Walk, while ostensibly simple, tell a difficult story of survival, migration, and human resilience. In this case, the captioning and stories behind the shoes are as poignant as the images themselves. Jensen's photographs, as well as the others featured in Moving Walls 21, remind us to never forget that our capacity for understanding, no matter how imperfect, should never prevent us from caring. --Lane Nevares

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Photo by Mark Leong

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An ocean of green, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with just under three million people in a landmass larger than Alaska. Mongolian culture—physical, mobile, self-reliant, and free—developed out here on the steppe. "When people move to Ulaanbaatar, they bring that mentality with them," says Baabar, a well-known publisher and historian.

Photograph by Mark Leong

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