Photographer Feng Yu on empathy, portraits, and an early lesson with a cranky director; Harry Reid and Tony Tse on Ogilvy's early days in China The Manila Sessions

"I don't like to play the game, and I don't want to play the game," photographer Feng Yu told me near the end of our interview. Utterly brave and supremely talented, her portraits of celebrities like Jackie Chan, Ai Weiwei, Michael Phelps, Stephon Marbury, Juliette Binoche have been published in magazines like Marie Claire, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, and Men’s Health.

You can see her work at http://www.yu-photography.com and http://www.fromherstories.com

I also speak with Harry Reid and Tony Tse (21:04), two former executives with advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather. Company insiders recently published a book on their foray into China called In The Name of Redness. Harry and Tony take us to the late 70s and early 80s in Beijing, just as the country was opening up.

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