Breaking Bread: Beijing Bakery offers hope to disabled orphans

Photography by Aurelian Foucault Spring Festival in China means two things: family and food. With millions of people preparing to leave Beijing for a week of festivities in their hometowns, a family of a different kind is hard at work in the border city of Langfang. This time six years ago, Grace Yang, now aged…

What does the end of the one-child policy mean for China’s disabled population?

In a small shop hidden in the shadows of the gleaming, golden arches of the two-storey McDonald’s next door, Liu Wenzheng has been developing photographs since 1995. Business in his north Beijing neighbourhood is slow but steady. Every now and then, a Western couple will come in to have a photograph taken of their newly adopted…