Shanghai

Shanghai

I bought a one-way ticket to Shanghai, thinking I’d stay for a year. 12 years later, it feels like home.

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Graeme Kennedy, a Canadian photographer based in Shanghai. His words have been edited for length and clarity.I grew up in a small town in the Canadian Rockies in the kind of place where you help your neighbor shovel snow off their…

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I bought a one-way ticket to Shanghai, thinking I’d stay for a year. 12 years later, it feels like home.

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