The Foreign Correspondents’ Club’s wall exhibition this month has featured the photography of Melville Jacoby — an American freelance journalist, United Press stringer, and foreign correspondent for TIME and LIFE magazines who covered WWII in China, French Indochina (present-day Vietnam) and the Philippines.
This photo collection of wartime Chungking (Chongqing) was inspired by the book A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War by Bill Lascher and was curated by FCC member Carsten Schael.
At this club lunch talk, Lascher spoke about his family connection with Jacoby, how he discovered and restored his photographs, and delved into the history of the FCC: from its earliest days as the “press hostel” in 1941 Chungking to its current location in the heart of Hong Kong. The talk was moderated by FCC president Lee Williamson. You can watch it all in the video below.
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