Category: cities
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sing the city electric
Electricity poles, wires, and cables are an essential part of the modern urban environment, giving it shape as well as bringing light. Mostly they go unnoticed and unphotographed. Here are some exuberant examples. I borrow the title of this post from Faris Joraimi’s essay “I Sing the City Electric: Modern Singapore Envisioned in Popular Malay…
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blues + yellows #2
#1 Johor Bahru #2-3 Siem Reap #4-5 Hanoi Jan-Feb 2016 #1-3 Saigon Feb 2016 #4 Frankfurt March 2016 #1-2 Frankfurt #3-4 Berlin #5-7 Prague (Karlín) March-April 2016 #1-4 Prague (Karlín + Žižkov) #5-6 Prague-Brno rail journey April 2016 Calgary, 2016-2017 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah February 2023 Kuching, Sarawak February 2023
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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
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rencontres #2 (off the wall)
These photographs were taken in the LUMA Arles Parc des Ateliers in September 2014. The Parc des Ateliers is a former railroad wasteland covering an area of 27 acres that was first operated by the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) company, which became the SNCF in 1938. The LUMA arts campus, which hosts exhibitions, performances, conferences and other…
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rencontres #1 (délices d’été)
Founded by Lucien Clergue and others in 1970, Les Rencontres d’Arles is one of the world’s great annual photography festivals. We have been fortunate to visit it several times. These images were shot in 2014.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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