A few photos from a New York Times assignment at the recently-completed Better Place Switchable Electric Car Experience Center in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China.

Foshan furniture photography is rather popular for me at the moment; the city is essentially a suburb of Guangzhou, where I'm based, and it's status as a world manufacturing hub for sofas, chairs, and other furnishings draws a global audience of buyers keen to make their fortunes exporting from China.

Large furniture are a bit tricky to transport off-site for photography so I end up traveling to Foshan with a van full of photo equipment to set up a portable studio in factory showrooms. Moving bulky arm chairs on and off a white background all day is definitely hard work but is much easier than moving a container load of furnishings to an off-site studio.

A recent editorial photo assignment brought me to Shenzhen to photograph a cosmetic surgery operation at a Louhu District hospital. Photographers are rarely permitted inside Chinese plastic surgery clinics which made the assignment all the better.

I had a fun assignment last summer photographing restaurants for the Wall Street Journal. After almost a year, this isn't exactly news, but since I've regularly revisited one of restaurants since then, I thought I might mention it anyway.

A few images from some areas with older dwellings in Tianhe district, Guangzhou, China.