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• the East is red

  China photos April 2012, Cambodia and Vietnam photos February 2016 #1-3 Shanghai #4-7 Beijing Beijing #1-2 Beijing #3-8 Siem Reap Hanoi #1-3 Hanoi 4-7 Saigon

  dereksayer

  June 8, 2023

  adverts, airports, cafés, cities, colors, food, markets, murals, people, posters, restaurants, shop windows, street photography

  Beijing, China, Hanoi, Saigon, Shanghai, Siem Reap, Vietnam

• Marfa, Texas (Americana #2)

  I have been avoiding visiting the United States since Trump was elected president in 2016 and I can’t see that changing so long as MAGA remains a force in the land. But I have some fond memories. These photos were taken on my first trip to Marfa, Texas, in April 2011. The images in the…

  dereksayer

  May 30, 2023

  adverts, Americana, architecture, hotels, landscape, reflections, rural, shop windows, skies, trains

  Marfa, Texas

• rencontres #3 (le gai savoir)

  a final set of images from the Rencontres d’Arles, September 2014

  dereksayer

  May 24, 2023

  adverts, artworks, cities, exhibitions, graffiti, night, people, posters, reflections, shop windows, skies, street photography

  Arles, Provence

• are, bure, boke #2

  The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…

  dereksayer

  May 21, 2023

  adverts, Americana, artworks, cafés, cities, Ex Situ, exhibitions, food, graffiti, hotels, museums, night, people, photographers, restaurants, sculptures, shop windows, street photography

  Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Marathon, Mexico City, New York, Sabah, Texas

• Little Hanoi, Prague

  There are currently over 80,000 Vietnamese citizens and Czech citizens of Vietnamese origin living in the Czech Republic. They form the largest ethnic minority in the country (after Slovaks and Ukrainians) and the third-largest Vietnamese community in Europe. The Vietnamese are the only significant non-white community in Czechia other than the Roma. The Sapa Trade…

  dereksayer

  May 19, 2023

  adverts, cafés, cities, food, markets, people, restaurants, shop windows, street photography

  Prague

• kafka metro tram

  Quadrio Shopping Center, Národní třída, Prague The “moving head” of Franz Kafka (#1), installed outside the Quadria Center in 2014, is by the artist David Černý. The text in image #7 translates as “love somehow doesn’t always triumph over liars or over money” – a pointed allusion to Václav Havel’s slogan “Truth and love must…

  dereksayer

  May 19, 2023

  adverts, artworks, cities, monuments, reflections, sculptures, sex, shopping malls, street photography

  Prague

• window shopping #6 (New York)

  all images shot in New York City, January 2011

  dereksayer

  May 17, 2023

  adverts, Americana, cities, food, markets, people, posters, reflections, restaurants, sex, shop windows, street photography

• those awful toe rings (Americana #1)

  All images shot in Venice Beach, California, April 2002

  dereksayer

  May 16, 2023

  adverts, Americana, food, people, posters, sex, shop windows, street photography

  California, Los Angeles

• red zone

  #1 Café Slavia, Prague #2 Philadelphia, April 2008 #3-4 Diana, New York, April 2008 #5 Prague, September 2015 Beijing, April 2012 Languedoc (Pézenas + Agde), September 2011 #1-2 Agde, September 2011 #3 Malacca, January 2006 #4-6, Calgary, 2016-17 #1 + 6 Calgary 2017 #2-5 New Orleans, April 2010 Calgary, 2017-18 #1-2, New York, January 2011…

  dereksayer

  May 11, 2023

  adverts, architecture, cafés, cities, colors, Luci, markets, people, reflections, restaurants, sex, shop windows, street photography

  Beijing, Calgary, China, Languedoc, Malacca, Malaysia, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Prague, Shanghai, Singapore

• (in perfect harmony)

  #1 Diana, New York, April 2008 #2 London summer 2001 #3 Marfa, TX, April 2011 #4 Little India, Singapore, December 2005 #5 Paekakeriki, New Zealand, December 2000 #1-2 Kaeo + Kawakawa, New Zealand, November-December 2000 #3 Vermilion County, LA, March 2014 #4 Terlingua, TX, April 2014 #1 + 2, Marfa, TX, April 2014 #3 Whangerei,…

  dereksayer

  May 10, 2023

  adverts, Americana, cafés, cities, murals, people, rural, street photography

  Banff, Beijing, Calgary, Cambodia, China, Hanoi, Kota Kinabalu, London, Louisiana, Malaysia, Marfa, New York, New Zealand, Prague, Sabah, Siem Reap, Singapore, Terlingua, Texas, Vietnam