Ye Charlotte Ming is a journalist, writer, and artist, raised in China and based in Germany. Her work explores themes of culture, history, migration, and identity.

Since 2018, Ming has contributed in-depth articles on cultural heritage, post-colonialism, migration, and social justice as an independent journalist. Her work has appeared in publications including National Geographic, Time, South China Morning Post Magazine, Die Taz, Atlas Obscura, World Press Photo Witness, Sixth Tone, and Tencent News.

Working across mediums and disciplines, Ming wrote and narrated Remembering: An Antiracist Audio-Walk in 2023, a 90-minute audio tour tracing Germany’s colonial history in China through Berlin’s urban landscape. The interactive walk has been experienced by hundreds of high school students in Germany.

Ming also co-founded Far & Near, a Substack newsletter with over 3,500 subscribers, where she and her colleagues Beimeng Fu and Yan Cong cover visual arts, journalism, and social issues in China. The newsletter has been recommended by Semafor and Sinocism.

She has delivered lectures, workshops and walking tours on colonialism, media and storytelling at various art, media, education and public institutions including Gropius Bau, Goethe Institute, Dekoloniale Berlin, Tsinghua University, VII Foundation and Robert Bosch Alumni Center.

Previously based in New York, Ming worked as a journalist and visual editor at TIME Magazine’s photography department and at Getty Images.

Ming completed the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2023. She holds an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (2014) and a B.A. from Colorado State University-Pueblo (2012).