For the past year or so I’ve embarked on project to document China’s fourteen land borders. So far, I’ve photographed four of them and I plan to travel from Shanghai to Nanning later this month to cover China’s border with Vietnam.

My most recent trip took place in early December. I had more than a week between my next commercial shoot (actually a video shoot) so I took the opportunity to fly from Shanghai up to Yanji, Jilin Province, a distance of almost 1,500 kilometres. I spent five days there and in Hunchun, which is right across the river from North Korea and around 40 km from the Russian border. Looking across into North Korea in particular felt a bit like staring off the edge of the world.

During my time up in Jilin, I shot a little over 19 rolls of Fujifilm Pro 400H, which were developed and scanned by Mr. Film in Shanghai .

I’m mainly shooting with a Hasselblad Xpan, but I’m photographing with of medium format on my Pentax 645NII. I feel the panoramic format really lends itself to the subject matter, but I’m being a little pragmatic as an editorial photographer: the Pentax gives some more options in terms of layout.

Here a few shots from up north.

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