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Bill Lascher
Bill Lascher
Post Mag contributor
Bill Lascher is a freelance journalist. His interest in wartime Asia as witnessed by photojournalist Melville Jacoby was first piqued after his grandmother — Jacoby’s cousin — shared a trove of Mel’s original photographs from across East and Southeast Asia, 16mm home movies of pre-war Guangzhou and bomb-blasted Chongqing, handwritten letters, telegrams and other artifacts. Lascher’s work has appeared in Atlas Obscura, American History Tellers, The Guardian, The Oregonian, Next City, The Magazine, Boom: A Journal of California, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland Monthly and Pacific Standard.

A new book published by Hong Kong’s Blacksmith Books features images of Chongqing shot by war correspondent Melville Jacoby that paint a picture of life in China’s temporary capital on the Yangtze.

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