Liu Minxia

ONCE a columnist for the Village Voice, The New York Times and The New York Observer, New Yorker A.D. Coleman says he is planning to move to the vibrant young city of Shenzhen thanks to his marriage early this month to Anna Lung, a Hong Kong permanent resident living in Shenzhen.

The author of eight books and more than 2,000 essays on photography and related subjects, Coleman will write a column along with feature articles in a new photo magazine that will be published in Shenzhen starting in October. He will serve on the magazine’s academic committee.

Coleman has also joined the academic committee of the Lianzhou International Photo Festival (LIPF), an annual event that will be held for the second time in Lianzhou, Guangdong, this December. As a member of the LIPF’s academic committee, Coleman hopes to write about the festival and introduce it to the readers of the Shenzhen Daily.

Not only a master of critical writing, Coleman also has his electronic base. He launched The Nearby Cafe (nearbycafe.com) in 1995, a multisubject electronic magazine with over 1.2 million pageviews per year. He also founded and directs the Photography Criticism CyberArchive (photocriticism.com), an extensive online database of writing about photography by authors past and present.

Coleman — who lectures, teaches and publishes widely — has appeared on NPR, PBS, CBS and BBC. In 1998 American Photo named Coleman one of “the 100 most important people in photography.”

Moving his professional work to China, Coleman is curating a traveling show of Chinese documentary photography for the West, and also, seeing two of his books on photography translated and published by Guangxi Normal University Press. Coleman hopes to make Shenzhen his main base for both his life and his profession in the next two years. He said he loves it here in the city, enjoying family life with Lung and her 17-year-old son, Jacky.