Vietnam, Xinzhang, and news
Until now I have only been posting pictures from my digital camera which I just bought at Chanukah time (except the one scan from indonesia)
While thats all well and good, because of the overwhelmingly positive response I have gotten from friends, family, and random livejournal users (as well as a personal desire to show the world my stuff), I have decided to start scanning old pictures, slowly and surly. Unfortunately I don’t have access to a really good transparency scanner right now so I am scanning my old, thumbed up drugstore prints.
What this means is that I should be posting a bigger veriety of pictures (ie. not just mexico), and here's a start.
ALSO, this week I got a "job" (read: unpaid)0 shooting for the oberlin review, so look forward to seeign my work in the paper - and to seeing some of the stuff that they dont print on here.
Anyway, HERE is one of my best straight portraits. I was walking around Urmuqi (aka Wulumuqi, a wonderful moslem-Chinese city in far western Xinzhang province near the afghan border, see http://www.gochina4travel.com/img/mappa.gif) when I came along this guy and his partner banging out horseshoes in a tiny little shack on the side of the hill. we conversed in broken Chinese (Uigurs speak a turkic language) and they let me pound some iron. I remember it was a tiny little place, but the light was stunning and in the end I asked to take his picture. There's something in those eyes that always grabs me.
AND here is a picture taken on a train in Vietnam - it was supposed to be a 24 hour ride from Hanoi to Haikou (the Chinese border) but we got delayed for 12 hours - just standing still in the middle of nowhere. These three kids sitting near me did a remarkably good job keeping occupied and comfortable on the hard wooden seats.
While thats all well and good, because of the overwhelmingly positive response I have gotten from friends, family, and random livejournal users (as well as a personal desire to show the world my stuff), I have decided to start scanning old pictures, slowly and surly. Unfortunately I don’t have access to a really good transparency scanner right now so I am scanning my old, thumbed up drugstore prints.
What this means is that I should be posting a bigger veriety of pictures (ie. not just mexico), and here's a start.
ALSO, this week I got a "job" (read: unpaid)0 shooting for the oberlin review, so look forward to seeign my work in the paper - and to seeing some of the stuff that they dont print on here.
Anyway, HERE is one of my best straight portraits. I was walking around Urmuqi (aka Wulumuqi, a wonderful moslem-Chinese city in far western Xinzhang province near the afghan border, see http://www.gochina4travel.com/img/mappa.gif) when I came along this guy and his partner banging out horseshoes in a tiny little shack on the side of the hill. we conversed in broken Chinese (Uigurs speak a turkic language) and they let me pound some iron. I remember it was a tiny little place, but the light was stunning and in the end I asked to take his picture. There's something in those eyes that always grabs me.
AND here is a picture taken on a train in Vietnam - it was supposed to be a 24 hour ride from Hanoi to Haikou (the Chinese border) but we got delayed for 12 hours - just standing still in the middle of nowhere. These three kids sitting near me did a remarkably good job keeping occupied and comfortable on the hard wooden seats.