Planet Shanghai is a beautiful, funny book – a heartfelt celebration of city style, seen from the ground up. It’s also a valuable work of documentation. Someday those of us who lived in China around the turn of the millennium will look back and wonder if it all really existed: the Playboy loafers and the Darth Vader sun visors, the rubble of doomed neighborhoods and the sheen of new skyscrapers. Justin Guariglia has done a wonderful job of recording a city of quicksilver change and casual chic. -Peter Hessler, Author of River Town, and contributor to The New Yorker
ShaolinIn these images, Justin Guariglia has captured one of the last oases of pure, unaffected Chinese culture. This sumptuous book is a must for anyone whose imagination is captivated by the search for the edge of human boundaries in a distant land. Justin Guariglia's photographs reveal an extraordinary culture dedicated to the pursuit of discipline and excellence--where mind and body are stretched to the extreme. -Edward Burtynsky
Justin Guariglia provides a first - a perceptive look at the real monks of Shaolin Temple, their most inner sanctums, their devotional practice, and their traditional disciplines. He captures portraits of these venerated, compassionate warriors, who have survived the Cultural Revolution and ravenous tourists of modern China, and who stand guard at the very birthplace of the martial arts and Zen. -Gene Ching, Kung Fu Magazine