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Image credits
Who took the photographs on this site, and which ones we cannot yet say
This site publishes 83 editorial photographs. 13 of them have a photographer, a licence and a source page on record — those are listed below. The other 70 do not, and that is a gap in our own record-keeping rather than a design choice. Every photograph on the credited list is used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, which requires exactly this page.
Recorded 2026-08-02
Photographs with a recorded source
Photographer and licence as the source page states them, with the page the photograph and its licence were read from.
| Photograph | Photographer | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
/editorial/food/har-gow.jpg | N509FZ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/food/xiaolongbao.jpg | Robigasp | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/food/kung-pao-chicken.jpg | Steven G. Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/food/dan-dan-noodles-shanghai.jpg | Steven G. Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/food/roujiamo.jpg | P. Xie | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/food/mapo-tofu.jpg | Archon6812 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/sourced/cities/changsha-wuyi-district.jpg | Wikimedia Commons contributor | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/sourced/cities/dalian-xinghai-square.jpg | Wikimedia Commons contributor | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/sourced/cities/guiyang-jiaxiu-pavilion.jpg | Neymarcy | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/sourced/cities/hefei-cityscape.jpg | Wikimedia Commons contributor (Virgil Guo) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/sourced/cities/shijiazhuang-city.jpg | Suginami | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/sourced/cities/xiamen-gulangyu-island.jpg | Wikimedia Commons contributor | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Open source page |
/editorial/sourced/cities/zhengzhou-skyline.jpg | Windmemories | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Open source page |
Not published as credited
70 photographs whose source we cannot yet state
Publishing this number is the point. A site that asks you to trust its sourcing has to show you where its own record-keeping is weakest.
- 68 have no provenance record in this repository at all. They were added before image sourcing was gated, and we cannot name a photographer or a licence for them from anything we hold.
- 2 do have a record, but the record does not describe the photograph on the page — the stored author field holds a place description and the stored source points at an administrative location map rather than the photograph in use.
- Each one ends the same two ways: a real credit on the list above, or a replaced image. The list is enforced as a ratchet in `tests/smoke/image-credits.test.ts` — it can shrink, and a new image cannot enter the site without arriving with its source.