Tag: People
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Young and beautiful
Except that these girls are clearly sent out by their parents to get something in their baskets, they’re as young and radiant and beautiful as the children on last week’s photo. What I wrote there holds good here in almost the same way. Here’s how the story could well continue for this girl after only…
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The best of youth
I came upon them down in the valley. They interrupted their play for a moment to gather round me for a photo. A confluence of barely restrained joy of life. Their looks are open, positive, curious, without a trace of suspicion. And each one of them is unmistakably her- or himself. Life at its best.…
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Cramped for room
You wouldn’t think looking here at houses in one of the most posh parts of Mumbai. Still that’s what it is. And that’s how it is. The luxury mansions are just around the corner. At home you may be cramped for room but outside there is still space to fly your kite. And dream. Photos…
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Banganga
The neighbourhood of Walkeshwar on Malabar Hill harbours a rare 1000 year old water tank called Banganga. The tank and its peaceful surroundings let you almost forget that you are in the heart of the city of Mumbai in the 21st century. A man – or his wife – has washed his underpants in the…
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Coincidence
Two swimmers in Wellington Harbour. One in the water, the other on the wall of a gallery at the harbour front. One doing breaststroke, the other backstroke. Both rather clumsily. I remember when seeing the second swimmer I thought of the first whose picture I just had taken outside. It made me decide to photograph…
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Ambrosia
According to one creation myth of ancient Mesopotamia, the gods created humankind because they were fed up of having to look after their own food. Yes, gods also need food to survive, and they want man to provide it. As we can see here, man, religious man, still acquits himself faithfully of his task. This…
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Kinkaku-ji
Again three, and well placed, like in last weeks picture! In an earlier post with the title What shall I wear today? I have speculated on the question of ‘intention or coincidence’ in relation to a photo taken – as it happens – in the same Kinkaku-ji park. In the former case I didn’t rule…
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Two or three
Sometimes I can be perfectly happy with two, at other times it has to be three. So it seems. If it had been two I would not have annoyed you with this picture, would not have taken it in the first place. Three makes all the difference here. See how beautifully they occupy the space!…
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Black is beautiful
A black woman and a woman in black against a black background. When I walked into a bank in Alice Springs and saw this tableau I couldn’t resist taking a picture. It is at moments like this that I love the world, this wonderful world. The woman in black is clearly an Aboriginal girl, but…
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Death of an anthropologist
I haven’t found an explanation by the Aboriginal painter July Dowling about this work of hers. Whatever I say about it will be guesswork. But it is interesting, and probably not without significance, to note that apart from red ochre and synthetic paint, blood has been used in the painting. The three Aboriginal women’s faces in…
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