Fritz Hoffmann

Fritz Hoffmann

Fritz Hoffmann

Boston, MA

Fritz Hoffmann is recognized for his documentary style visual narratives. Fritz has collaborated with an extensive list of world media on stories that have portrayed culture, the environment and global economics. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic magazine. A Mandarin speaker, Fritz has been photographing China for twenty years, thirteen years as a resident photo-correspondent based in Shanghai. He resides in Sacramento, California.

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Sled-dogs Batman and Yuri the Sirius Sledge Patrol Team Four in white-out conditions while on the frozen sea, an arctic desert, at Greenlands north coast.
Construction workers set steel beams on the 88th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center superstructure under construction in the Pudong New Area in Shanghai, China.
On the set at Hengdian World Studios in Zhejiang, China for the filming of the movie, White Crane, extras dressed in period 20s and 30s Shanghai clothing, wait to be called to a nightclub scene.
Trained at Shaolin Martial Arts Elementary School, Shi Baoqing practices martial arts moves while waiting to be called in his role as palace guard for filming of the Zheng He story at Hengdian World Studios in Hengdian village in Zhejiang China.
Young Chinese enrolled in the internet addiction rehabilitation program at Baiyun mental health hospital in Guangzhou, China, spend time each day undergoing acupuncture as part of their therapy.
Desperate to heat their homes during the brutal winter, villagers in Qitaihe, China scale a mountain of slag to look for useable chunks of coal.
A steam engine connects to rail cars with buckets of molten iron at the state-owned Tonghua Iron and Steel, also known as TISCO, located in Tonghua, Jilin, China.
A worker is shown inside the state-owned Tonghua Iron and Steel, also known as TISCO, located in Tonghua, Jilin, China.
Young men, including a student with bleached blonde punk styled hair, idle their time away at the Shengli Shopping Square in Dalian, Liaoning, China, A Nike advertisement featuring Lebron James covers a department store behind them.
Two workers ladel molten metal into a fence mold at the Shenyang Tiantsu Foundry Company in Shenyang, China.
Netting over a hotel construction site frames the view of a neighborhood in the Tiexi Industrial District in Shenyang, China
Lathe man Ma Weilong at his post on the assembly line of a former state-run weapons plant in Shenyang, China.
Bedridden from a stroke, Chen Guangxiao and his unemployed son, Lianshun, await the inevitable: eviction from the once-prestigious Model Workers Village in Shenyang, China's Tiexi Industrial District.
Recent graduates of boot camp, U.S. Marine Corp soldiers receive orders before setting out to undergo land navigation training in the woodlands at Camp Devil Dog on the Marine Corp Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, U.S.A.
The Smith-Ninth Streets elevated subway station spans the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
The Kingswood Plaza mobile home residential community in Hastings, Nebraska is located next to the largest grain elevator in the state.
The K-East nuclear reactors stands stripped bare and decommissioned near the banks of the Columbia River at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
The K-West nuclear reactor stands decommissioned near the banks of the Columbia River at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Using government pickup trucks U.S. Fish and Wildlife officers drive American bison toward the roundup corral at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colorado, U.S.A.
James Harrison, outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers, in Scottsdale, Ariziona at weekly off-season treatment to help his body recover from the intense workout that Harrison puts himself through to remain in the National Football League as a player with strength, speed and agility at his age, 39 at the time of this photo, DOB May 4, 1978.
In the Visible Heart Laboratory at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, a pig heart beats artificially after it has been removed from the animal in the lab and attached to feed lines and machinery for testing that includes the install of newly developed artificial valves by the company, Medtronic.
Morning in a village high above the Nu River, the Salween, in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains in Yunnan Province, China.
Following the custom of the Lisu ethnic minority in Yunnan, China, the families of bride and groom come together to mark the payment of a monetary endowment paid by the grooms family to the brides.
Pu Dengyi sits patiently for customers to inspect a variety of game he sells at the weekly market in Lishadi on the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan, China.
To reach the weekly market at Chenggan village, a man pulls himself and his cow along a steel zip-line cable to cross the Nu River in Yunnan province China where there was not a bridge.
Women of China’s Lisu minority bathe together in the hot springs of the Mabu River, a tributary that feeds the Nu River north of the town called Liuku.
101 year old GIUSEPPE ROMEO of San Fili (CS) Italy still makes his own fresh pasta.
Wearing his World War Two army uniform, 104 year-old John (Jack) Gardner Talcott Jr. takes the parade seat of his Cadillac convertible at his home at Talcott Pines in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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