It’s about time for a blog update. I’m away from Shanghai until the 8th of January, but I’m still finding time to keep things ticking over while I’m on a holiday break in Melbourne.

This month I was invited to participate in Paper Tigers, an anthology of Australian photojournalism, which will constitute an exhibition as well as a book, which will be launched at Head On photography festival next year in May at Paddington Town Hall in Sydney..

It’s an honour to be included in this show and I’ve had to think about what some of my best images are. I’ve put together a submission, which will in part be dependent on images and subject matter of other photographers.

Some of the shots that stood out for me were a one fired remotely from a crane on a video shoot at the world’s largest linen manufacturer, a shot of motorcycle helmet clad revellers at the Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival in Taiwan, which I shot for CNN, another of Philippines police filing a report on a drug suspect they had just shot dead in Manila which I photographed on assignment for German magazine Stern, and a barely visible worker in a dusty graphite factory in the north of China shot for German publication Wirtschafts Woche.

It seems I’ll be pretty busy at Head On as besides Paper Tigers I’ll have a solo show of Shanghai: Decadence with Chinese Characteristics at Paddington Reservoir Gardens as well as some images from my Yangtze Series in a group show at 541 Art Space in Kent Street in the Sydney Central Business District.

Some of the series and tear sheets from these images that may be part of Paper Tigers can also be viewed at www.davetacon.com