Welcome to OSINT Exercise #008!
Task briefing:
The large photo below was taken from a page of the Epoch Times, a Chinese newspaper.
Please answer the following questions:
a) What was the audience applauding?
b) When was the photo taken?
c) What is the name of the venue?
Click here to open the photo on a new tab.
Exercise level:
For beginners: a) Easy, b) Medium, c) Medium
For experts: a) Easy, b) Easy, c) Easy

Want more? Check out the List of OSINT Exercises.
Finished? Well done! Check if your answers are correct.
Stuck? Watch the video below on how to complete OSINT Exercise #008.
User Walkthroughs:
- walnut – “Challenge to “OSINT Exercise #008”” ⭐
- Jonny Ghizmo – “Walkthrough: Osint exercise #008 from Sofia Santos“
- [ES] Enyomir – “Solución al Ejercicio de OSINT 008 del Blog de Sofía Santos” ⭐
- PretendNotToBe – “OSINT Exercise #008 by Sofia Santos“
- Sunny Chowdhury – “OSINT Exercise 1: Chinese Newspaper“
- Legion Soul – “OSINT Exercise #008“
- J0n4th4nV – “OSINT Exercise #008 Writeup“
- Tomi McCluskey – “Gralhix Exercise #008“
- Ragmthy – “OSINT Exercise 008“
- D’Vanshi – “Beyond the Characters: A Multilingual OSINT Investigation“
- VISCID – “Find everything about this NewsPaper Image!“
- Viktoras Draugelis – “OSINT Exercise 008“
- Victor Mwai – “OSINT(Exercise 8)“
- Morgane – “Sofia Santos – OSINT Exercise #008 – Write-up” ⭐
- Cyber-Jot – “Sofia Santos’s OSINT Exercise #008” ⭐
- anonymous – “Cracking the Shen Yun Photo Puzzle: An OSINT Mini-Adventure“
- masked – “Solving an OSINT challenge“
Why is my walkthrough not showing up above?
• I’m no longer accepting walkthroughs for this specific exercise.
• One or more of your answers were incorrect or missing.
• You asked me not to include it on the list, and I’m respecting your wishes.
• You may have sent me an incorrect or incomplete link.
• You linked to a website that tracks who sees your articles (e.g, LinkedIn).
• I suspected AI was heavily involved in the production of your walkthrough.
• I suspected you just wrote a walkthrough based on my video, and not your own work.
• I haven’t had the time to actually read, and add it yet (give me at least a week).
• I forgot about it (doesn’t usually happen, but I’m not flawless).
Why do some walkthroughs have a ⭐ in front of them?
The golden star emojis were introduced on the second year anniversary of OSINT Exercises. I will be adding them to walkthroughts that I feel stand out and deserve extra recognition. You can read more about my reasoning behind the decision in my blog post: “Two Years of OSINT Exercises: The Importance of Community Learning.”
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