吉姆 JIM HOFMAN | Photography Faces & places in China
China
Analog | China Travels
My son joined me during my first 3 months in China and we traveled a little during his visit. We went to Shanghai for a weekend and also had a good time in Hong Kong (until I got the flu).
Analog | Ningbo – Around Town
I moved to Ningbo in March of 2024 to open a sourcing office for my company. It has always been a dream of mine to live in a foreign country and when the opportunity presented itself last year I lept at it. Ningbo is a “small city” of 9.4 million people. When I first started […]
Analog | Beijing
To celebrate my son Ethan’s 19th birthday we traveled up to Beijing for a long weekend. On the first day, we hired a driver and went to the Great Wall. The second day didn’t exactly go to plan because I didn’t research ticket sales enough, but it was still a nice time. All photos were […]
Analog | Village – The First 3 Months
I moved to China (permanently) in early March of 2024, set up my film lab in my new kitchen and immediately began shooting the 400 rolls of film I brought from the US. My first stop was the village. All of these were taken on a Leica M7 using either a Voightlander or Leica 28mm […]
Analog | The Village – Fall 2023
Back at the village to visit friends, take photos – and watch the rice get harvested. All photos were shot on a Leica M7 with a Voigtlander 28mm Ultron V2 lens. The film stock was either Kodak Portra 400, Kodak Gold 200, or Fujifilm Superia 400. Processing & scans were done in Hong Kong / […]
Analog | Ningbo & Yangjiang
These two cities are my homes away from home and I bounced back and forth between them during most trips to China.
Analog | Village in the Summer
I took the Hasselblad Xpan to the village for some pano images. It’s usually a challenge to compose a panoramic photo in a small area like a village, but I’ve started using a wide 28mm Nikon lens on the Xpan which has made it easier.
Analog | Ningbo in the Heat
Wow – it was stupid hot in China during the summer of 2023. I had a choice of weather conditions – extreme heat + humidity or heavy rain. Neither was very conducive for street photography.
Analog | Yangjiang in the Summer
Hot, Hot, and more hot. Maybe some rain too. All photos were taken with a Zeiss Ikon ZM on Portra 400 film. Thanks to Anne for being my guide on a couple of photo outings.
Analog | The Village after Covid
I was relieved to see all of my village friends survived the December of 2022 Covid wave that swept through China.
Analog | Ningbo after Covid
I spent a month back in Ningbo after the big Covid wave of December 2022. It was great to see China back to normal.
Analog | Back to Shanghai
After getting shut out of China for almost a year and a half, I was finally able to travel to Shanghai for some street photography and vintage camera shopping with my Ningbo friend Barry.
Analog | Returning to the Village
It took me over 15 months before I was able to return to China to continue my documentation of the final years of this 400-year-old village.
Analog | Yangjiang
It’s been over two years since I was last in Yangjiang and it was nice to spend some time there.
Analog | Ningbo | Returning During Zero Covid
After enjoying the relative safety of China’s Zero Covid policy during 2020 and 2021 I returned after a 15-month absence. Unfortunately, I returned to a very different China.
Analog | Leaving China after 14 Months
Well… that was a long business trip. Really long and really amazing. I essentially sat out the pandemic in China – which was one of the safest Covid bubbles on the planet. It was really tough packing up my apartment at the end of my odyssey. I had accumulated a lot of stuff over 14 […]
Analog | One Year in China
This week is the one-year anniversary of coming to China in March of 2020. I came to Ningbo with the plan to stay for 6 weeks for a business trip. A few days after I arrived China closed the borders (still not reopened a year later) and the Covid cases in the US spiked.
Analog | January 2021 – 10 YEARS!
This post marks the 10 year anniversary of this photoblog. It also coincides with the publication of Volume 2 of my village series.
Analog | Winter Travel & Ningbo
Some assorted photos using assorted cameras and assorted film stocks. These are the final photos taken in 2020.
Analog | Village Fall Harvest
It’s harvest time in the village and there were lots of photo opportunities. Harvesting rice, potatos, soy beans, peas, sweet potatos and more rice.
Analog | Vintage Panflex Camera
The Shanghai Camera Mall got more of my money. I was in the mood for something COMPLETELY different than my other analog cameras, so I started investigating panoramic cameras.
Analog | Shaoxing Opera at the Village
I was walking through the village in the middle of October and saw a large tent erected in one of the parking lots. After asking around I found out there was a touring company performing Shaoxing Operas for 3 nights.
Analog | I’m YouTube-Famous Now
I met a YouTuber on the bus from the Shanghai airport to our government-mandated 14-day quarantine hotel in Ningbo. He was returning from the US with his family trying to out-run the COVID-19 virus that had just hit the US. I was doing the same thing – for slightly different reasons.
Analog | Black & White Film
Because the local photo lab is getting slow and expensive I decided to start developing and scanning my own black and white film. I already do that in the US, but it requires some gear and chemicals to get it done here in China. After I was here for about 6 months I decided to set up a film processing lab in my AirBnB kitchen – which I never use.
