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Alan Chin

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Baltimore, Detroit, New York
Covers:  conflict, catastrophe, politics, culture
Photographer, writer, amateur historian, roustabout, bon vivant, and insomniac.

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Alan Chin’s Biography

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Alan Chin was born and raised in New York City’s Chinatown. Since 1996, he has worked in China, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Central Asia, and Ukraine, as well as extensively in the United States. He is a contributing photographer to The New York Times and many other publications, Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and his work is in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art. The New York Times twice nominated Alan for the Pulitzer P…

What was your first job as a journalist?

Photographer for NY weekly newspapers Our Town and The Manhattan Spirit.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. Own two.

How is social media changing news?

More readers, less money, more work, less time.

Magnum Foundation Counter Histories Grant

2022 - Photography

Counter Histories is an initiative supporting projects that creatively reframe the past to engage with urgent questions of the present and future.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) CARES

2020 - Visual Arts

Congress appropriated $75 million to the National Endowment for the Arts through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act in 2020 to preserve jobs and help support organizations forced to close operations due to the spread of COVID-19.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works

2019 - Visual Arts

Art Works grants support artistically excellent projects that celebrate our creativity and cultural heritage, invite mutual respect for differing beliefs and values, and enrich humanity.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Detroit Arts Challenge

2017 - Arts

Community-wide initiative funding projects that engage and enrich Detroit through the arts. Winner for Facing Change: Documenting DETROIT: To create a photo essay of the city through a community photojournalism project that pairs emerging photographers with professionals who mentor them in producing a story on Detroit communities

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