Posts Tagged ‘Street Portraits’

Suburban Shanghai’s other face

Shanghai Nov 2010

I wanted to escape the Shanghai that everyone sees; I wanted to explore the every day Shanghai of the 20 million inhabitants that provide the “fuel” for this great engine of Chinese growth. This is the Shanghai of those who have been relocated to make way for the new city; the Shanghai of those who get around on electric scooters or the Shanghai of the pensioners content to play majhong or sit all day in the street and chat.


Low light and landlag – a winning formula

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One of the few advantages of jet lag – or in my case as a cheeky friend pointed out given my mad travel schedule this should be renamed land lag – is that you are often up before the birds, which does provide you with the opportunity to take advantage of that magical time around [...]


Why location, luck and gear is not enough

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When I first started taking photography seriously about 18 months a go I naively thought that taking a powerful portrait – particularly travel or street portraiture – was really just because the fulltime photographer was always in an exotic place, with a great camera and of course in those type of locations you really just [...]