Through the Cracks: Unveiling the Truth in Silence

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A new exhibit from award-winning photographer Chen Jie highlights tragedy and hope from his 30-year career. Chen Jie will never forget the exposed sewage pipe jutting from the sand. “The light was fading as I climbed one dune after another in the desert, the acrid smell sharp in my nostrils,” the photographer recalls. “I worried I might lose my way back.” Now immortalized in his photo “A Pipe Exposed by Wind and Sand,” the piece is emblematic of Chen’s career-long efforts to probe humanity’s precarious relationship with the environment. In his 30 years working in the media, Chen has turned his lens to stark realities, investigating pollution in northwestern China’s Tengger Desert — where he stumbled across the aforementioned pipe — poverty in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, and looming ecological crises. As he looks back on his career ahead of the exhibit “No Consolation,” which opened earlier this month in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou, he conte ………………………………