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photography

post sem razão


quando éramos pequenos, no verão, sabíamos de onde vinham os emigrantes franceses, pelos números nas matrículas, tantas vezes perguntados ao pai. e 75? paris. e 69? “leão”. e ouvíamos a história, muitas vezes repetida, da gare do metro de paris com cheiro a limão, tão cheia de gente que ao andar, não se tocava com os pés no chão.

não rimava, que eu me lembre. mas agora quando me dão as saudades, fico a pensar que um dia destes, as histórias exóticas que ouvimos de um pai ex-emigrante em paris, se vão transformar nas nossas histórias de shanghai, e que, se calhar, ainda alguém há-de ouvir que aqui as pessoas também se empurram para caberem no metro e usam máscaras à frente da cara. porque não cheira a limão, só a poluição.



(image of a metro worker in paris (1971) by Dizzy Atmosfere, used with permission. second picture by raemin, a shanghai metro station on a friday evening. )

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links and ideas photography

shoes and breakfast


the breakfast and shoes projects are two similar photographic essays. they both aim to capture the details of strangers by sharing their photo, along with what they have for breakfast, and what they wear on their feet.
the result is a colorful mesh of portraits and a precious insight into anonymous lifes, both well worth the visits.


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foooood in china in the netherlands photography

stroopwaffles!

stroopwaffles

mimo, directamente da holanda, na forma de mini-stroopwaffles. perfeitas para o dia cinzento de hoje. obrigado cláudia, chegaram inteiras! :)

* bonuses: design*sponge guide to online shopping, made by bloggers: part 1 and part 2. filled with link goodness and lots of interesting suggestions for different kinds of gifts (artwork, lightning, ceramics, vintage, hidden gems, etc). worth a check.

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in china photography

meet the family

us

here’s the best possible picture at the moment of the new kids in the 88, dongxin road: grub and lilo, on a rare moment of quietness.

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in the netherlands photography

the winogrand in me

the man on the deck

it’s been almost 2 years since our trip to schiermonnikoog, a dutch island on the northern sea.

a mix of laziness, lack of budget or decent photography shops made me lose interest in developing the film i shot in the island back then. i was curious to see the pictures, but while i still had the memory of the events i shot, and all the people with me… there was no real need to “see” them again… (i guess i’ll never understand the people that peek at the pictures when they’ve just taken them, on the backscreen of digital cameras). so i let the film stay in the shelf.

i have quite a few of these “forgotten” films. they have travelled all the way to the netherlands and back, to the states and back, and now here they are in china. they’re stored in identical canisters, with no reference to what’s in each one of them. little pandora boxes, with with unknown age or stories.

to me, photography is not about rules, big lenses and trendy bags, keeping negatives in the fridge and looking out for x-rays on the airport. it’s about fun and framing. i shoot when i feel inspired, when friends are around, when i feel like being a tourist, when there are not many cameras in the area. i develop when i have the time, the patience, or whenever i itch to discover what forgotten secrets are hiding in one of those black canisters. what about you? do you develop your films right away, or not so much? do you peek on the back screen of your digital camera? :)

more, on flickr.

* bonus: two weeks with garry winogrand, by mason resnic. garry winogrand was a prolific photographer who died on 1984, leaving a total of 12000 rolls of film that he never looked at. peculiar philosophy.