Tiny Grains

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Tiny Grains is a collection of photographs of the active participants in Manhattan’s Chinatown during the COVID–19 pandemic through the return to “normalcy.”

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body and blood

This project documents, through photography, Christian Holy Week and Easter around the world. Each year, I travel to a different country and do my best to capture definitive imagery. So far I've passed Holy Week in Guatemala, the Philippines, Spain, Haiti, Italy, Greece, Ethiopia, Colombia, Armenia, Israel, Russia, India, Egypt, New Zealand, Australia, Easter Island (Chile), Lebanon, Brazil, Senegal, Mongolia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Estonia. The first year, in 2003, I innocently photographed Good Friday processions here in New York not knowing it might be my life's work.

chinese american new years

Lions and Dragons and Unicorns, oh my

you ask my love for you is how deep

berning chinatown

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Edward Cheng, a native New Yorker, is a freelance computer programmer and seasoned globetrotting backpacker. As a photographer, he works on long-term projects documenting the Asian American experience in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown, Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, and Christian Holy Weeks and Easters around the world. Cheng is a teaching assistant and a permanent fixture at the International Center of Photography; he regularly assists darkroom masters Steve Anchell, Brian Young, and Chuck Kelton. He drinks mezcal oaxaqueno neat.

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