http://zhao-jing.com/cathay daily 1.0 2026-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764400364613-DD34YD3H23X72IW0TW50/A%2BLETTER.jpg Cathay - The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter 长干行 Diptych, archival pigment print 2011-2012 Cathay(2011-2025) Cathay is a photographic project structured in direct correspondence with Cathay (1915) by Ezra Pound. The series consists of nineteen photographic diptychs, each aligned with one poem from Pound’s book. Produced between 2011 and 2025 across the United States, the work functions as a visual re-translation, weaving a thread through classical Chinese poetry, modernist English, and into contemporary photography. Each diptych pairs color and black-and-white images made across different moments in time, forming a layered structure of memory, duration, and return. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764400364613-DD34YD3H23X72IW0TW50/A%2BLETTER.jpg Cathay - The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter 长干行 Diptych, archival pigment print 2011-2012 Cathay(2011-2025) Cathay is a photographic project structured in direct correspondence with Cathay (1915) by Ezra Pound. The series consists of nineteen photographic diptychs, each aligned with one poem from Pound’s book. Produced between 2011 and 2025 across the United States, the work functions as a visual re-translation, weaving a thread through classical Chinese poetry, modernist English, and into contemporary photography. Each diptych pairs color and black-and-white images made across different moments in time, forming a layered structure of memory, duration, and return. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1763844353220-GDHY564HA8F5GM7VH02M/SONG%2BOF%2BTHE%2BBOWMAN%2BOF%2BSHU.jpg Cathay - Song of the Bowmen of Shu 诗经·小雅·采薇 Diptych, archival pigment print 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1773973343160-5S81SSH21LCJV38E2ZW7/Zhao_Jing_Cathay_10.jpg Cathay - Taking Leave of a Friend 送友人 Diptych, archival pigment print 2013-2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1773973362153-SWMERHT1NCVJN3J9KCVG/Zhao_Jing_Cathay_18.jpg Cathay - To-Em-Mei's "The Unmoving Cloud" 停云诗 Diptych, archival pigment print 2013-2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1763844264721-IK9M4CR17ONFDO1HAND1/image-asset.jpeg Cathay - The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter 长干行 (after Ezra Pound) Diptych, archival pigment print 2011/2012—2012 Cathay is a long-term photographic project created between 2011 and 2025. Structured as nineteen diptychs, the series re-imagines Ezra Pound’s English translations of classical Chinese poems through a method of visual translation. Each diptych pairs a color image with a black-and-white image—two temporalities, two visual languages—brought into a single field of meaning. Many of the images were made more than a decade apart; some were photographed recently. Their coexistence creates a layered sense of time, memory, and return, echoing the way Pound’s translations connected distant histories. Rather than illustrating the poems, Cathay interprets their rhythm, silence, and emotional structure. The work moves between clarity and blur, presence and disappearance, accident and intention—holding the fragility of time as its core material. Across fourteen years of making, the series has grown into an inquiry about image, translation, and the endurance of inner life. It is both a meditation on poetic lineage and a record of how photographs can carry the traces of lived time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1773973380422-YXGBKZNE9R2QHSA4B51G/Zhao_Jing_Cathay_19.jpg Cathay - The River Song I 江上吟 Diptych, archival pigment print 2012-2025 http://zhao-jing.com/under-the-seasons daily 0.75 2026-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1768450043934-SFVM5LFQIU4UPYXTMYA8/IMG_4239.png Under the Seasons - Documentary film still (In post-production) Under the Seasons(2027) Under the Seasons is a year-long portrait of a mother and her three year old daughter living inside the quiet rhythm of nature in Texas. Filmed across the shifting light and subtle changes marked by the East Asian solar terms—the 24 micro-seasons that shape the year—the film observes plants, weather, daily rituals, and small moments from spring to winter. This film is ultimately about time, how a mother witnesses a child grow, and how a child learns about the world through the seasons. What begins as ordinary days becomes a record of time itself: how a year forms a child, how seasons hold memory, and how tenderness and attention can turn the smallest moments into something larger. Credits A film by Zhao Jing Directed, filmed, and edited by Zhao Jing Filmed 2023–2024, Texas Currently in post-production To be completed in 2027 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1768450043934-SFVM5LFQIU4UPYXTMYA8/IMG_4239.png Under the Seasons - Documentary film still (In post-production) Under the Seasons(2027) Under the Seasons is a year-long portrait of a mother and her three year old daughter living inside the quiet rhythm of nature in Texas. Filmed across the shifting light and subtle changes marked by the East Asian solar terms—the 24 micro-seasons that shape the year—the film observes plants, weather, daily rituals, and small moments from spring to winter. This film is ultimately about time, how a mother witnesses a child grow, and how a child learns about the world through the seasons. What begins as ordinary days becomes a record of time itself: how a year forms a child, how seasons hold memory, and how tenderness and attention can turn the smallest moments into something larger. Credits A film by Zhao Jing Directed, filmed, and edited by Zhao Jing Filmed 2023–2024, Texas Currently in post-production To be completed in 2027 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764894625621-F6B0GBKFNQUDWN130VGI/IMG_3997.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764887601101-UUT695QXD7DO1LKCQSFQ/IMG_4053.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764887796590-BSPZIPN4JWBGELYX63FU/IMG_3997.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764894625592-XNSJZ0RKSGRUZ4PP8THE/IMG_4007.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764894632993-6Y2CSQMVR9EG0CXZ1INO/IMG_4106.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1768450100496-ILU9BN31543BYFLQL44T/IMG_3953.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764894646218-EVQ6XGC11XR5UH58HO0S/IMG_4232.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1768450078843-WIJ654SVI2DMMAK83NTK/IMG_3900.jpg Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764887214715-BJ918SBTKOMA4QIAKQRF/IMG_4174.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764887145882-6Z6FEZ09M9FZ2T3MHUX4/image-asset.png Under the Seasons http://zhao-jing.com/seven-days-at-the-epicenter daily 0.75 2026-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764037945439-YDU6F7G03DC74J6T6OAQ/image-asset.jpeg Seven Days at the Epicenter Seven Days at the Epicenter (2026) Seven Days at the Epicenter is a work of literary non-fiction drawn from the author’s experience as a photojournalist who spent seven days inside the aftermath of a major earthquake. The book explores memory, faith, and the fragile boundary between witnessing and being transformed. Spare and reflective, it explores how time fractures under extreme conditions, and how a person rebuilds meaning after standing at the edge of life and loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764037945439-YDU6F7G03DC74J6T6OAQ/image-asset.jpeg Seven Days at the Epicenter Seven Days at the Epicenter (2026) Seven Days at the Epicenter is a work of literary non-fiction drawn from the author’s experience as a photojournalist who spent seven days inside the aftermath of a major earthquake. The book explores memory, faith, and the fragile boundary between witnessing and being transformed. Spare and reflective, it explores how time fractures under extreme conditions, and how a person rebuilds meaning after standing at the edge of life and loss. http://zhao-jing.com/the-fallen daily 0.75 2026-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038179705-5Q7MBM5ECKO8N4TKH2OR/image-asset.jpeg The Fallen Baltimore, MD, 2012 The Fallen (2012-2025) The Fallen is a long-term photographic project developed over more than a decade, shaped through visits to cemeteries in the United States and China. The project is an exploration of absence, ritual, and the ways human beings give form to death and memory through space, objects, and repeated acts of remembrance. The work is composed of two parts. A photographic sequence of approximately seventy images made from 2012 to 2025, centered on cemeteries, and a written dialogue between the artist and her 5 year old daughter following a visit to a cemetery in 2025, which functions as the final component of the work. The Fallen reflects on mourning, continuity, and the subtle passage of time across generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038179705-5Q7MBM5ECKO8N4TKH2OR/image-asset.jpeg The Fallen Baltimore, MD, 2012 The Fallen (2012-2025) The Fallen is a long-term photographic project developed over more than a decade, shaped through visits to cemeteries in the United States and China. The project is an exploration of absence, ritual, and the ways human beings give form to death and memory through space, objects, and repeated acts of remembrance. The work is composed of two parts. A photographic sequence of approximately seventy images made from 2012 to 2025, centered on cemeteries, and a written dialogue between the artist and her 5 year old daughter following a visit to a cemetery in 2025, which functions as the final component of the work. The Fallen reflects on mourning, continuity, and the subtle passage of time across generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038329188-GHY8K9EIJSSIIN7XOH0T/20131113scan06A1s.jpg The Fallen Baltimore, MD, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038327959-4ARL3C6HRRLC55QAL9HX/07.jpg The Fallen Shanghai, China, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038323418-ULA1K83UGPIM3ES35186/0120009a.jpg The Fallen Shaanxi, China, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038325178-PB1X5FHBIQ5AFC37KOIC/Oct0100411.jpg The Fallen Qinghai, China, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038324668-UEGHHMD95X9T12AGVF5M/09.jpg The Fallen Heilongjiang, China, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038329697-BQDSPTEBGLRG7U62MQ3K/20131017As.jpg The Fallen Mountain Home, AR, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038327935-G4NRFZSF9GYGR228E0TP/20131014scan03As.jpg The Fallen Mountain Home, AR, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038417877-AMRAL2S3PHPWO0X309TC/2025%E5%A7%A5%E7%88%B7.jpg The Fallen HeiLongjiang, China, 2025 http://zhao-jing.com/monuments daily 0.75 2026-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039302137-P5E3P3FKPLLMD80R0KFO/image-asset.jpeg Monuments - Monuments 2010 Monuments (2010) Monuments is a ten image photographic series created in a Tibetan region in the aftermath of an earthquake. Most houses had been completely destroyed, yet in many homes the doors remained standing, carrying fragments of vivid colors, painted motifs, and traces of the Eight Auspicious Symbols. These doors come to symbolize both calamity and survival, the last surviving markers of a cultural and spiritual world. In daily life, a door is something one passes through countless times—a simple, unthinking act. After the disaster, that act of entering and leaving is irrevocably altered; direction, time, and fate no longer have the same meaning. These doors become witnesses to existence itself, where cultural color, lived experience, and the residue of belief continue to stand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039302137-P5E3P3FKPLLMD80R0KFO/image-asset.jpeg Monuments - Monuments 2010 Monuments (2010) Monuments is a ten image photographic series created in a Tibetan region in the aftermath of an earthquake. Most houses had been completely destroyed, yet in many homes the doors remained standing, carrying fragments of vivid colors, painted motifs, and traces of the Eight Auspicious Symbols. These doors come to symbolize both calamity and survival, the last surviving markers of a cultural and spiritual world. In daily life, a door is something one passes through countless times—a simple, unthinking act. After the disaster, that act of entering and leaving is irrevocably altered; direction, time, and fate no longer have the same meaning. These doors become witnesses to existence itself, where cultural color, lived experience, and the residue of belief continue to stand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039545407-TOLICSJ42PQM4HJYNP05/4.jpg Monuments - Monuments 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039545735-4P8I0UZ99MDNXNANMD6K/2.jpg Monuments - Monuments 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039544268-8DUCQVID81RW76RC0EPV/10.jpg Monuments - Monuments 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039544505-VMZSDTF19WW4719CEXG4/6.jpg Monuments - Monuments 2010 http://zhao-jing.com/cv-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-14 http://zhao-jing.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-09 http://zhao-jing.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-01-15