Writer | Photo Editor

Hello! Iā€™m Ye Charlotte Ming, a freelance journalist and photo editor from Qingdao, China, based in Berlin, Germany.

My work focuses on underreported and nuanced stories in the themes of culture, history, and identity. My writing and photo editing have been published in TIME, National Geographic, Atlas Obscura, Getty Images FOTO, ChinaFile, World Press Photo Witness, Sixth Tone, and other publications.

I report and write in English and Mandarin for both English and Chinese publications and speak an intermediate level of German. Currently, I am researching a book about German colonial legacy as a Crossing Borders fellow sponsored by the Robert Bosch Foundation and Literary Colloquium Berlin.

I graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in May 2014 with an honor in visual storytelling.

In addition to writing and photo editing, I also provide services in researching, grant writing, and copy editing.

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