Fritz Hoffmann

Fritz Hoffmann is an American photographer based in Boston, U.S.A. He is recognized for his 24 years of photography of China. As a contributing photographer to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, Fritz has
photographed a diverse range of stories, from the Three Parallel Rivers in China to the Danish
military Sirius sled patrol in Northern Greenland, archeological discoveries in Angkor Wat,
Cambodia, Manchuria, Superfund sites, glacial erratics, Shaolin Kung Fu, Chinese medicine and the worldwide study of super-agers.

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After stints on staff at newspapers in his hometown of Seattle, Charleston, West Virginia, and Knoxville, Tennessee, Fritz Hoffmann became an associate of J.B. Pictures (NY). From his base in Nashville, Tennessee, he established himself as an independent photographer, photographing social issues and culture in the American South and news events such as the Mississippi River floods and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

In 1995, Fritz
moved from Nashville to Shanghai, China. He studied Mandarin at the Shanghai University Academy of Fine Art.

In 1997, Fritz became the first Western photographer since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 to be granted resident journalist accreditation by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs with permission to be
based in Shanghai. He opened the China Bureau of Network Photographers (UK) in 1997 and
launched the picture agency documentChina in 2001. Fritz’s China work is a valued visual record of the nation’s peak period of transformative change.

Today, Fritz lives in New England, where he and his wife, Kathya, have restored his family’s
300-year-old house. His path now follows the journey of his young daughter, Arden.