Tag: People
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The Birds
The Birds The next moment the lovely young mother and child will be lying in the sand with pecked away eyes. Since Du Maurier and Hitchcock this terrifying vision was bound to force itself on my mind when I took this picture. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2019
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Savitri’s shop
Savitri’s shop Eggs, beedis, chewing stuff and some other items, that’s what she is trying to sell in her roadside shop. But her priceless smile is for free. Photo of the week: Savitri’s shop, Ganj, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India 2007
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The last picture show
The last picture show That’s what it is, this picture of an old Nepali woman smoking her hookah. It is the last photo on the film roll that I had removed from my camera before it was stolen from my bag from under my seat in the bus to India, back in 1996. Maybe that…
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Fairy queens
Fairy queens Well, they are real, those fairy queens which I imagined seeing in last week’s post. No need to touch them for making sure. I look at them, they look at me, and most of the enchantment is gone. A sad look, a faint smile … we’re back on earth. The fairy-tale costumes can’t…
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Tactile Arts
Tactile Arts A ceramics exhibition at the Tactile Arts gallery in Darwin. What holds attraction for me though is not inside but at the other side of the window. Do I see it right, this fairylike spectacle? Tactile Arts. To touch is to feel is to make sure. But no, let’s not spoil the illusion.…
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Flesh
Flesh Is this then what became of man after the expulsion from paradise? (See last week’s post). A pile of flesh on what looks more like a table than a bed. Edmondson nicely calls his painting ‘Sleeping Arrangements’. We can recognize some human limbs, but can’t easily make out to which body they belong. We…
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Paradise lost
Paradise lost As two light shadows, that’s how Bokor lets them disappear in his beautiful painting ‘Expulsion from Paradise’. The shadows are merging with the landscape: they can only just be distinguished from the surrounding nature. Their undefined form fits the pristine, natural state of Adam and Eve at this early phase in the genesis…
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Freedom
Freedom When a school selects imaginative teachers, children get a chance to develop creative minds. An egg rack carton and some paint make for a beautiful pineapple. Photos of the week: New United School, Kathmandu, Nepal 2018
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Happy faces
Happy faces Today our parents are invited to school. We are going to show them our work and a nice programme of song and dance. Photos of the week: New United School, Kathmandu, Nepal 2018
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Dal bhat
Dal bhat The staple food of Nepal used for making a map of the country. Lentils and rice. Nice idea of the children and their teacher! Photos of the week: New United School, Kathmandu, Nepal 2018
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