Category Archives: China

Pagodas

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China 2007 Sorry. I can’t remember the name of this city. I do remember it was a metropolis and if we needed a bank we would find plenty of them here. The streets were filled with cars and lined with high-rise … Continue reading

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Chinese Turkistan

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Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China 2003 Uighur men take the opportunity to get their faces and heads shaved at the Kashgar Sunday Market. Every hair was shaved down to the skin except the luxuriant flowing mustaches.  

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Rice Terraces of Long-Ji

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Long-Ji China 2005 Our hotel window overlooked these rice terraces. Keren Su, our tour leader, arranged for this woman to simulate harvesting rice. Those rows of yellow are rice stalks that have been cut and are now drying in preparation for threshing. … Continue reading

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Khampa Portrait

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Yushou, China 2007 A Khampa woman adorned with turquoise and coral. I used Alien Skin’s Exposure and Snap Art to get this graphic look.

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Weavers

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Kashgar, China 2003 Women weave silk carpets in a workshop in Kashgar. Their knots were fine and tight. The carpets felt like the fur pelt of an animal.

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Life in a Beijing Hutong

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Beijing, China 2007 The Chinese government has torn down most of these small neighborhoods, called hutong, in order to build modern apartment houses and commercial structures. Life in the hutong was the essence of Chinese life. I wanted to see for myself. … Continue reading

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Lunchtime

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Yunnan Province China 2005 A H’mong woman enjoys a bowl of noodles. Those were delicious, and I ate them every chance I got… even for breakfast. Hint: just because the Chinese don’t gain weight from eating noodles doesn’t mean you … Continue reading

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Pilgrims

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Zhana Monastery, Qinghai China 2007 Elderly women pause for a rest. They sit opposite the stone walls of the Zhana Monastery. The prayer wheel spins and the rosary beads pass through work-worn hands. They wear heavy outer garments made of yak … Continue reading

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Market Day in Dongchuan

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Rural China 2005 I shot these mushrooms in a covered market in a rural Chinese town. Of course, a rural town in China often has a population of 16 million. No matter. If you were there you would know it was … Continue reading

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Fog on the Mountain

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Longjii, China 2005 I was shooting film in 2005. And I don’t think I had ever shot on a foggy day. I think I got lucky here because the fog didn’t cover this hill which was right below my hotel … Continue reading

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