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6,500+ photographs of China.
Rouviere Media’s stock photo collection is one of the most complete on-line collections of China photos in the world. The 16,000 photographs in this collection were taken from 1985 to the present and cover a wide spectum of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life during one of the most significant eras in China’s history -- China’s dramatic opening to the outside world and modernization.
Forrest was born in Japan and spent more than 14 years working and living in Asia and even longer studying its history and language. In his work as a contract photographer for Time magazine in China, he took the 6,000+ China photos on this site, in addition to another 20,000+ photos that are in the process of being digitized to upload to the site. The photographs cover China’s dynamic reform era, including the vibrant development of China’s economy and its opening to the outside world. Forrest photographed many world leaders and major news events such as the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement and crackdown and the 1997 turnover of Hong Kong to China.
An avid student of Chinese history and languages, Forrest speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese.
He also worked for the Internet giant Cisco Systems as a project manager, technical liaison, and web developer, and opened new offices for Cisco in six Asian countries. In 2007, Forrest left Cisco to work as web developer, project manager, and photographer at Rouviere Media.
He manages and builds standards-based websites which incorporate photography and image- and document-related databases in addition to managing his own on-line photo database on this site.
He and his wife Donna Anderson have five children, four of whom were adopted from Korea and China.
Forrest also enjoys woodworking, silversmithing and nature.
Donna is a multimedia designer, public historian,and writer. She is a former foreign correspondent for the Associated Press in China and free lance writer for publications such as Time, LIFE, the London Times, the Toronto Globe and Mail. She is completing a public history masters’s degree with an emphasis on museum studies and Chinese history and speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese. She has museum experience working with Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic period to the 19th century.
Donna also is an expert in digital photo restoration and dating of historical photographs and does historical research on photo-related subjects.
She is experienced at photo-related page layout, and has done graphic design for web pages, institutional histories, posters, and a variety of other print materials. She organized and managed the scanning and metatagging of the photo collection on this website.
She is currently working on three book projects, one on the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, one on Chinese ceramics, and one on displaying and storing artifacts in private family collections.
She enjoys woodworking and furniture building, framing, and tailoring and sewing.
