{"id":76725,"date":"2024-10-15T21:18:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T19:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&#038;p=76725"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:38:55","slug":"china-hopson-my-degree-gave-me-a-toolbox","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/career-paths\/china-hopson-my-degree-gave-me-a-toolbox\/","title":{"rendered":"China Hopson: career path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n    <div id=\"lead-in-block_3d20d325d577c490974c0d59c51924d3\" class=\"block-lead-in typo--default font-size--xl has-spacing--m width--default\">\n        <h1><strong>\u2018My degree gave me a toolbox that now lets me develop freely as a photographer.\u2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Graduate China Hopson looks back on her time as a student in an interview.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">\r\n    <span class=\"posted-on\"><a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/career-paths\/china-hopson-my-degree-gave-me-a-toolbox\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2024-10-15T21:18:36+02:00\">15.10.2024<\/time><\/a><\/span> <span class=\"meta-text\"> Edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/finn-winkler\/\">Finn Winkler<\/a><\/span><\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\r\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n<div class=\"video-block has-spacing--m align--left\">\r\n    <div class=\"video-wrapper size--full\">\r\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/799120520\" title=\"Alumni stories #2: China Hopson\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/799120520?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"100\" height=\"56\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>    <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\n\n\n<p class=\"post__paragraph has-spacing--default\"><strong>China Hopson <\/strong>studied at <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/news-en\/application\/ten-reasons-to-study-visual-journalism\/\">Hochschule Hannover<\/a> until 2019 and spent a semester abroad in Birmingham. Since then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinahopson.de\/\">the photographer<\/a> has worked for numerous editorial clients including DIE ZEIT, Greenpeace Magazin, Vogue Germany and S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung. She is also active in the Female Photoclub and heads its Hannover chapter. <br><br>In March 2023 the photojournalist told the online platform <a href=\"https:\/\/myurbanology.de\/china-hopson-fotografin-in-hannover-dortmund-und-stuttgart\">\u2018myurbanology\u2019<\/a>: \u2018My view of things is different from that of the majority society \u2013 emotional and from the inside, rather than looking in from outside.\u2019 With her photo projects, she wants to represent an Afro-German perspective and her own community in the media. <br><br>China Hopson now also teaches as an associate lecturer on the Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-spacing--default has-spacing--default\">\n<div class=\"devider has-spacing--none\">\n    <hr>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n\n    <div id=\"lead-in-block_aff0740ee1ac22c0bf0921e01b74810b\" class=\"block-lead-in typo--default font-size--xl has-spacing--s width--default\">\n        <p><strong>Recommended by the editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"teaser-grid grid-layout--3col has-spacing--s width--inline\">\r\n\r\n            \r\n                <article class=\"post-teaser\">\r\n\r\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/masculinity\/masculinity-can-be-deadly\/\" rel=\"permalink\">\r\n\r\n                        <div class=\"post-teaser__content\">\r\n\r\n                            <span class=\"entry-categories\">Masculinity<\/span>\r\n                            <h3 class=\"post-teaser__headline\">\r\n                                Masculinity can be deadly                            <\/h3>\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"post-teaser__excerpt\">\r\n                                <p>Women attempt suicide more often \u2013 and yet 71.5 per cent of people who die by suicide in Germany are men. 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