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street b & w

nobody@vox.com(Wojtek) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:21:07 +0000

street b & w, originally uploaded by joohang.

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faith

nobody@vox.com(Wojtek) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:12:29 +0000

faith, originally uploaded by paolo vezzoni.

durante le prove del matrimonio...

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Bad Hair Day? Not Anymore!

nobody@vox.com(BeautyChat) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:02:49 +0000

Another-Bad-Hair-Day

If there were ever a support group for bad hair, my intro would go something like this, “My name is Jennifer and I am super lazy when it comes to my hair.” Then I would ask for an electric shaver to buzz it all off. Too drastic? Possibly, but allow me to explain.

While I have often received many compliments on my hair for it’s length, shine, and occasional volume, I went many years without actually doing anything to emphasis it’s natural beauty. I did dye it once and got it permed many years ago, but other than that, it’s all real. However, my biggest issue has been that it’s super straight. Not even a slight hint of a wave.

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the story breaks_

nobody@vox.com(sighmon) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:47:12 +0000

James Nachtwey has been selected as this years' TED Prize winner. Tune in on October 3rd to hear his 'one wish to change the world'.

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Watch out for Sam

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:04:32 +0000

[Cross-posted in Lucire] We’re preparing to shoot Samantha Powell, Miss Universe New Zealand 2008, on Tuesday. Photographer Doug Rimington is ﬂying in from Sydney tonight and I collect him at the airport in a BMW 120i Cabriolet that the company has lent to me; and the Tissot Fabulous Garden watch has arrived, delivered personally by Grifﬁths McKay & Buckleigh’s Lynette Kopu. Our one is prettier than the one featured in Lucire this month: it has a gold face, and the watch is nicer in the metal, but the price is the same (NZ$775). No word from the press person at an Auckland label whom I called last week, so it looks like Starﬁsh (our ﬁrst choice) will be supplying both dresses for Sam.
Not that I know what the photos will look like, but there is a good chance the next New Zealand-edition cover will be shot by a Kiwi.

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Surprise Pictures!!

nobody@vox.com(Musoplex Studios) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:39:55 +0000

For me anyway..

Pete sent me the code for this slide via e-mail. I have no idea what he has put on it so what better way to find out than to embed it on here. he has been doing a few shoots lately, with his work getting more abstract and beautiful. His last, a cenceptualisation for a fantastic band called the Dreaming Tree (think early 70's rock stylings from a very accomplished young band) so hopefully some of those are in there.

Pete has his own photo studio at Musoplex and for band shots charges as little as £50 a set and is absolutely brilliant.Yu can see more of his photography at www.thenaturallevel.com

Here goes....

Surprise embed code from Peej

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Omg.....she said!!!

nobody@vox.com(Ann Marie Walts) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:32:40 +0000

Before & After

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Exhibition News; Part II...

nobody@vox.com(Maleghast) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:35:43 +0000

Wow... Thanks so much to everyone that came along on Friday evening to the Private View. I had a great time, saw lots of people that I was not expecting and generally had a great time. I had a real sense of pride and gratitude that I have these wonderful people in my life, who all came together to experience my work, talk about it and have a few drinks together. I can't tell you how lucky I feel right now.

Saturday was quiet, but lovely. I had some people who were just walking by, and some people who made a special trip, including one of the senior Application Engineers where I am working, a former colleague from SpinVox and a couple from my local friends who were not able to come on Friday night.

Shortly I am heading out to see if anyone comes by today; more to follow...

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Imaging USA

nobody@vox.com(Nancy Catherine Walker) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:51:07 +0000

Every year the PPA puts on Imaging USA. A combination trade show and convention with some legendary speakers. Sandy Puc and Anne Geddes will both be making presentations this year. Classes are broken down into "tracks" so there is something for everyone, regardless of your style of photogrpahy.

The one annoying thing about Imaging is that tickets are only sold as a "Buddy Pass", which works out as 2 for 1 ticket. This is great for those who work in teams or have assistants that they want to come with them. But for people like me it's a waste. I end up paying twice the amount of everyone else and have a ticket that no one ends up using.

So if anyone is interested in going to this, you do not have to be a PPA member, but has not purchased their ticket yet please let me know. I'm willing to split the cost of the ticket with someone. The ticket would be mailed directly to you from the PPA so we won't have to meet up at the convention center or anything like that.

Full Ticket price is $219 (I'm a PPA member), so half will be $109. Transaction will be done via paypal. Buddy Pass is not good for the Pre-convention classes.

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SELF PORTRAITS

nobody@vox.com(Lisa Oakes Art) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:34:32 +0000

So, I spent my day off taking self portraits and playing with them in Photoshop.

Makeup 003

This is what I do when I don't have a model to shoot. I really like messing around with the color balance on different ranges in each photo. They came out looking pretty cool, I think. :)

Glowing Eyes

Twins

Makeup 029vintage orange

Mirror Mirror Camera Me

Also, mirrors are a simple and interesting effect to play with. There are lots of pictures involving reflections, here.

Geisha Kiss?

Breath on a Mirror

Anyway, I'd like any criticism you can offer...that way when I use this technique with a real model, I'll know what looks best. :)

Any thoughts???

Thanks!!
LisA**

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A good day for a photographer

nobody@vox.com(kermieladie0) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:16:43 +0000

As a photographer, somedays can be good, some can be down right not very. I may say this is one of the good ones that you can get more then a few good snapshots. I am currently using a digital camera that is a bit more compact, but yet complex to use. Its point and shoot, but its close to the high end that you need to figure out the lighting and the fine details of the camera. I do have a wish list camera I do like to have in which I will get soon- Sony SLR Cameras. I am spending more time to shoot videos out of my current compact camera, which produces as good a video as a home video- unless you're picky. I am not into heavy equipments and into simple technology that communicate the message(s) of the photograph(s).

For more photos- Flickr

kate beckinsale

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About Myself and my photos for stock photography

nobody@vox.com(lance71) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:09:31 +0000

My Name is Lance Muir, currently living in Johannesburg South Africa. I live on a small plot just out of town (great place to rest and relax)

I am a beginner to the stock photos side to photography but love the whole idea behind stock photos and strive to produce uvery useful imagery of lots of different subject matter and at great quality giving the customers or buyers a well worth the money photograph.

My portfolio has only been up for a short time mostly using my canon 350D with 8 mega pixels, gave me some great results but was lacking a bit of needed quality in my photography.

I have recently upgraded to the Canon 400D at 10.1 mega pixels now with much better quality for pictures in my opinion camparing to the 350D.

I have started off with plainly African or South African subject matter such as traditional musical instruments, golden brown bushveld for which Africa is well known. Now I plan to get more people into my portfolio from the few I currently have.

I do however have a great image (in my opinion) of a young little african boy playing a bongo drum (traditionally African musical instrument) with great facial expression. This one in particular is in a sepia tone which does the picture great justice. It was taken at a little village in South Africa, they have a show they put on for passing people. This boy is a great hit with these little shows.

Also have another shot of the same little boy drumming the bongo - just in case the buyer needs a color image for his oir her design.

I will continue adding images - I try and see what the stock photography websites are lacking (with regards to images) and try to provide them. It is difficult with the great photographers on the sites.

I also enjoy the images of architecture such as high rise buildings and office blocks which hold a characteristic different to the usual. Took a drive into the Central Business District of Johannesburg in South Africa and got some really nice photos of some of the great and historical buildings there. This is where the 2010 world cup is going to take place so I feel the pictures will come in handy for buyers.

I enjoy getting up close and personal with wildlife such as insects, animals or even "man's best friend"...the dog. Have a beautiful close up image of the green locust with its face staring directly into the camera appearing inquisitive. The image is very detailled and i really think I got a great shot with that.

Hope you all enjoy my images and find them useful.

You can check out my istock photos at www.istockphoto.com/lance71

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Kraków - Ulica Floriańska

nobody@vox.com(Wojtek) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:56:13 +0000

Wojciech Oracz Kraków Ulica Floriańska 2008-08-31

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Avedon in Paris (a review and preview)

nobody@vox.com(Martin) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:28:17 +0000

Avedon in Paris (a review and preview), originally uploaded by the other Martin Taylor.

My wife and I recently took advantage of a required trip back to the UK to spend a few days in Paris. Aside from a dollar that sucked and the 100% smoking rate of Parisians the trip was wonderful and one of the highlights of our trip was the opportunity to see the Richard Avedon retrospective at the Jeu de Paume more than a year before it will arrive at SF MoMA.

It is difficult not to lump Richard Avedon in with other successful giants of modern portrait photography; Diane Arbus, Erving Penn, Annie Leibowitz (with whom he shares top billing this summer in Paris). They are the first wave of modern portrait photographers – the first to reject beauty for 'reality' which some critics condemn as 'cruel' photography. More on this later, however, the influence of these rock-stars of portrait photography is impossible to ignore and to pass up the opportunity to see this exhibit would have been spiteful.

Love him or hate him (and all these photographers have something of a polarizing effect on audiences and critics) you have to admit that Avedon's work is impactful especially in the flesh. He was one of the first photographers that pioneered the bigger-is-better philosophy to his prints and so you encounter many of his subjects in this exhibit larger than life size with every pore, blemish and hair high lit. A modest print of Warhol and the Factory crew that we had seen a couple of days before in the “Street and Studio” exhibit at the Tate Modern was interesting but seen 9 meters long its impact and implied gravitas was infinitely greater; I don't know if that makes it a better photo or not – that's a question for a more knowledgeable critic than I.

But I get a head of myself; the exhibit itself was laid out chronologically and is exhaustive. True, you've probably seen most of these pictures before in books and a few of them in other exhibits but you're unlikely to have seen this volume and depth of Avedon's oeuvre as exhibition prints before. In the Jeu de Paume the exhibition filled much of display space of two floors of the building with rooms devoted to specific periods starting with his earlier fashion work and progressing through celebrity portrait work to his common man opus, In the American West, and beyond. It took a good two hours to go through.

The lighting of the prints was top class, a standard I hope SF MoMA will live up to, as was the spacing and pacing. Most of the standard prints are presented in plain white gallery frames with white mats against white walls. Captions and commentary (both in French and English thankfully) are applied directly to the walls themselves as seems to be the modern custom. Overall the effect is conservative but it allows the prints to speak for themselves. The larger prints are displayed mounted on aluminum and they tower over the viewer, especially when you consider Avedon's penchant for cropping the head of his subjects close to the top and in the top 20% of the frame. Half of the larger prints are displayed against black walls as opposed to white – exquisitely lit they glow like black and white windows into another time and place.

Some think that Avedon is over-rated – a charge that seems to be leveled at anyone in the art photography field with a commercial background or achieving great commercial success, both blasphemies Avedon was guilty of. I'll concede that he wasn't the most innovative or intellectual of photographers but this did not lessen my enjoyment of this exhibit. I did not tire of his simple trick of isolating his subjects against the plainest of white backgrounds, of capturing excruciating detail and of printing in dramatic sizes. Once I got away from his celebrity subjects and to the hard working oil men, ranchers, homeless and manual laborers it was hard not to stare and wonder if you were looking deep into someone else's life and soul. Perhaps that isn't the heart and soul of his subjects but instead a grotesque world from the imagination of Avedon himself, it really didn't matter to me; I went away moved and inspired and I personally can ask no more of art.

The exhibit tours other venues in Europe before coming to San Francisco in the Fall of 2009. When it arrives I'm sure it will be a massive hit here as it is the kind of photography and blockbusting exhibit the West Coast loves. I look forward to seeing this exhibit again and, in the meantime, I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to see this preview in Paris.

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MLFM spotlight: Nikki

nobody@vox.com(TechMusicGospel) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:23:43 +0000

From the opening of Nikki's podcast with the statement...

"encompass your mind, body and soul...Soulrific"

You're about to embark on a journey with some of the best Nu Soul, true R&B and some of the best hip hop(true hip hop) with a her podcast. I first ran across Nikki on her Vox blog, a gifted photographer, a young lady that says what's on her mind. As the ol' folks say, "She says what she means and means what she says". This beautiful sister is not only talented behind the lens but from the very her first podcast that began over at Infinite Ink spun off to it's own site each podcast keeps getting better and better.

As one would say about Chris Noth's character Mike Logan with having the "golden gut"(which means he has the gift of sniffing out the bad guys) this young lady has to me the "golden ear". She not only has the gift of finding the some of the best, new Soul music but has a gift of having one song flow into another without missing a beat. Episode 22 I listened to twice on my night job. Knowing when to bring in a track and not have it sounding "choppy" is a craft she is perfecting with every episode. If you have listened to my podcast you have heard me wave about her and to me she's all that and then some.

With instrumental tracks for me it's easy for me to find great tunes because to me unless you are really terrible most of the artists sound great. With Soul, R&B, Hip Hop that is a different matter. In today's market with most artists hide behind the miracles of studio producers only to see them in concert you have wasted your money, Nikki digs deep and finds some of the most talented/gifted brothers and sisters that rarely get commercial radio time and brings them to the forefront and I am so greatful for the hard work she puts into her podcasts each week. When you here the movie snippet(which by the way this young lady has excellent taste when it comes to movies with substance and I think she's may have a thing for Lawrence Fishborne ) the music journey for me takes me back to when true musicians and artists had not only the vocals but the substance of the lyrics brings a smile to my face.

Her latest episode, Soulrific #22 brings me back to the days of Public Enemy, D'Angelo, Maxwell, Eryka Badu. With skills of Talib Kweli(the track "More and Less to me is true Hip Hop), Pete Rock,the soulful richness of Noel Gourdin(the track "Reach" the cut I can listen to over and over). All of the tracks takes me back to living in South City St. Louis. It wasn't the safest place but I never had any problems and living in the city makes you keep it "real" and that is what I love about her choice of compositions...it makes you keep it real. It reminds you "never forget where you come from". What makes her podcast stand out to me is it gets right to the "meat" of things...the music and that is what I truly love about her podcast. The more she keeps producing podcasts the more she's sharpen her craft as not only a producer but a true mixer when it comes to bringing tunes to the masses.

Another thing I love about Nikki is her designs of her sites: minimal but very eye catching. I have asked her where she gets each image but she said she would "have to hurt me"...well she said something else lets just leave it at that(I kid, I kid because I love you sista). But all kidding aside her sites are very nice/clean and draws you in to see what she has to say.

What Nikki has brought to the podcasting community is refreshing and makes me look at the genre that I thought was long gone. I know I have thank you so many times but...

Thank you.

Nikki's blogs
infinite Ink[http://www.theinfiniteink.com/]
Soulrific Podcast Shows[http://soulrific.theinfiniteink.com/]

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Q&A with China Photographer & Backpacker Savant Tom Carter

nobody@vox.com(China Photographer Tom Carter) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:17:54 +0000

An Interview With China Photojournalist Tom Carter

American photo-journalist Tom Carter has spent the past four years in the People’s Republic of China, traversing all 33 provinces and autonomous regions not just once but twice. The San Francisco native’s hardback book, a definitive 800-image volume aptly entitled CHINA: Portrait of a People, is due out from Hong Kong publisher Blacksmith Books. Tom took a day off from travelling to discuss the challenges of taking pictures in China, how he evaded censorship in the tightly-controlled republic, and to share a few insider tips on visiting what is to become the world’s largest tourism market.

Your upcoming book focuses heavily on photographs of people, from peasants to punk rockers, ethnic groups to entrepreneurs. As a lone foreigner in a faraway country, how did you approach so many strangers, let alone become intimate enough with them to take their portraits?

Most of my photos came about as a natural result of my curiosity and interaction with Chinese people during my travels. It wasn’t until the end of my trip that I thought about compiling them into a book. This is a tribute to all the people I met along the way.
For the portraits, it just takes a sincere interest in your subjects to get that close. I don’t believe in hiding behind a zoom lens; I was actually as near to all those people as you see in the pictures, sometimes just inches away. The candid life shots, which comprise a good third of the book, were actually more of a challenge. As a foreigner walking down the street in China, all activity stops the moment you are seen, so it’s tricky to photograph life before life stops to stare at you.
I don’t believe any book can capture the true spirit of a country with only pictures of places. Sure, a photo of a sunset over the Great Wall is nice, but what do you really learn from it? I wanted to show the people, and dispel the stereotype of the Chinese as a homogeneous single nationality.

You must speak the language pretty well.

That’s the very first question I always get from other expats I meet in China! It humbles me to admit that my Putonghua borders on offensively poor. I taught English when I first arrived in China, which left me no time to formally study Mandarin. I picked up my entire vocabulary while travelling. I call it Survival Chinese. I can communicate, but I’m usually left out of the gossiping granny circles. A friendly smile works well when all else fails. I might add, though, that Chinese dialects vary widely by province, so even most nationals have trouble understanding other Chinese outside their own hometowns.

You say you came to China as an English teacher, but four years later you’re a published photojournalist and author. Did you plan this career move?

Never, but that’s China for you, a real land of opportunity. Teaching was just a means to an end, which was travelling. Out of that first long year on the road sprung my collection of photos, which resulted in a book contract and travel assignments from various periodicals, which brought me full circle back to my second spin around China. I believe I stand apart from my contemporaries in that I’m not sitting around a cushy foreign correspondents’ club “networking” [makes mock quotes with his fingers] and waiting for my next assignment; I’m out on the road finding my own. But maybe that’s why Reuters still hasn’t called me.

You’ve had a few run-ins with Chinese censorship of your images and articles. Care to share?

The concept of Freedom of the Press, something the west takes for granted, is still entirely alien in Communist China. The media is state-run and every single word and image that comes in and out of the country needs to be approved by the Ministry of Information. Crazy, huh? But since I’m an independent freelancer without the backing of any news agency, I lack official journalist credentials. Most of my images I’ve had to get the hard way, which has often resulted in confrontations with local authorities who view foreign correspondents as a threat.
For example, for the three single frames of coal miners with soot-covered faces that appear in this book, I and my Chinese travelling companion had to spend several days in the mountains of South Shanxi before we were able to sneak into a coal mine, grab a few shots then get the hell out before being caught. Mining is one of the most dangerous and controversial occupations in China, and is entirely off limits to journalists. Some of my best photos are hit-and-run like that.

There’s one incident in particular I want to hear about: a peasant riot that you photographed and which almost got you arrested. Tell us about that.

To be caught up in a proletarian uprising – something both foreign and Chinese reporters in China rarely even hear about, due to rapid suppression of information, let alone eye-witness – was extremely frightening but probably one of the book’s most powerful images. I was subsequently “implored” by the local police to hand over all my photos, under penalty of incarceration, but a couple have managed to slip into the book [winks mischievously]. I’m still in China and would like to be able to leave without a trip to the clink, so it’s not something I can talk about in further detail, nor can we make the photo public until the book is on the shelves.

Guerilla-style documentary photography is something you are obviously proud of. Someone said you have “turned mundane daily life in China into a work of art” but one reviewer wrote that your photographs are “an assault on ordinary people who should be left alone.” What’s your take on such extreme responses?

Which one was the criticism? [Laughs] Actually, I prefer the term ‘street photography’, because that’s exactly what I do. I’m out pounding the pavement from 6am to 6pm every day, learning about the culture through observation and interaction. Many photojournalists cover their assignments as quickly as possible so they can remove themselves from the elements, but I revel in the elements. I don’t have any technical or artistic preconceptions to my photos. The whole idea of spending an hour setting up a shot and then photoshopping it to death afterwards is not what I’m about. I just capture life as it is, then move on. If the picture turns out crooked, so what! Life is crooked!
I have no desire to make something palatable, even if it means not getting on Getty. On the other hand, any of my photos that are considered beautiful I credit entirely to my subjects. They are the ones who deserve the compliments.

China really is a vast country to explore, and you have been to every corner of it – 33 provinces and over 200 cities and villages. Travelling for a living sounds like a life of leisure, but what’s the reality?

You know, forall the tourism I’ve promoted for China with my photos and travel articles, you’d think the CNTA [China National Tourism Administration] could at least have comped my hotels. But the truth is I’ve never received a cent in financial backing. During the two years I spent travelling across China, I slept in 15 RMB [2 USD] flophouses with particleboard walls – which are illegal for foreigners to stay in – with the occasional youth hostel or night on a bus station floor. I taught English for two straight years beforehand so I could save up to travel, and I really had to pinch my pennies to make it last. The upside is that my insolvency resulted in experiences that staying at the Sheraton could never produce.

All travellers are running away from something. What’s your excuse?

I come from a long line of nomads – my mother a Danish immigrant of good Viking stock and my father a hybrid Panamanian-Cuban-Italian – so drifting is in my blood. It’s my dream to travel the world, take pictures and write about it. I have no intention of succumbing to that thirtysomething syndrome of settling down. The world is my home.

So what day-to-day difficulties did you encounter during your marathon journey across China?

You mean hour-to-hour difficulties. My photos might excite a lot of potential tourists, but I’m not going to sugar-coat the reality of actually travelling in China. The consensus among backpackers is that China is probably the single most challenging country in the world to navigate. Aside from the obvious language barriers, you have 5,000-year old customs and extreme cultural differences that can be quite vexing for the typical westerner. Most of these nuances are not something that you can catch on film; travellers have to discover them for themselves, and that’s part of the fun.

What keeps you going?

I delight in the challenges that a country like China poses to westerners. Sure, I occasionally catch myself pounding the wall in frustration, but the thing about the PRC is that every turn is a new adventure. For me there’s nothing worse than being bored, and boredom is just not possible in China. See these lines on my face? They weren’t there before.

How did you plan your routes?

I haven’t planned a single route since I arrived in China four years ago. I just point myself in a direction, then let life carry me on its current. Not only does every Chinese person you ask where to go have an excitedly different opinion – even about which way is north – but there are so many undiscovered villages that are off the charts. Not to mention that the time it takes to get to these places is often days longer than how it appears on a map, making an itinerary kind of pointless.

Tell us more about surprises along the way, and any dangerous situations you’ve been in.

Surprises are the rule, not the exception. In addition to clashes with the authorities over my pictures, I’ve had everything from a near-lethal bout of encephalitis during my first year in China, to getting shanghaied by crooked English schools, which I wrote about for the Wall Street Journal. One of my favourites is the time I found myself at the business end of a North Korean machine gun when I accidentally crossed into the DPRK at Changbaishan. These are all stories I can laugh about now, though my mother doesn’t think so.

It’s said that China is now undergoing the most prolonged period of sustained change in history. How has it changed since you have lived there, and how will it change in the near future?

I think China’s most dramatic changes have been brought on by itself and that the now-clichéd term “New China” was something methodically planned out in their boardrooms. The Chinese government is addicted to what I call hyper-urbanization. You’ve got historic cities like Beijing, where they are bulldozing these ancient hutongs by the hour so they can build office towers, or the 2,000-year-old village of Gongtan in Chongqing that is going to be levelled this summer for a new power plant. I wrote an article about Gongtan for a local magazine but it was quickly quashed because the censorship bureau said “We don’t want to bring any attention to that place.” These contrasts in architecture appear in my book because I feel it is imperative to capture this last glimpse of China’s old slate rooftops before the skyline becomes pure steel and glass. CHINA: Portrait of a People will probably become a history book, something Chinese people will look at twenty years from now and say “Ah yes, I remember.”

It seems like everyone wants to know more about China these days. Do you see more people planning on visiting the country?

China will become the world’s largest tourism destination of the next decade, no doubt about it. The 2008 Beijing Olympics and Shanghai’s World Expo in 2010 are expected to attract between 50 to 100 million tourists annually. China’s doors were closed for so long that it’s only natural the world is curious about what’s behind them. What the pictures in Portrait of a People are doing is fuelling this curiosity by offering an intimate glimpse of humanity in China, and scenes of daily life that even publications like National Geographic overlook.

You’re something of an authority now on Chinese travel. Can you offer any tips for travellers?

Well, what China wants tourists to see is often at variance with what is actually marvellous about the country. You’ve got these highly-sheltered tour group packages that cover the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Terracotta Warriors in Shaanxi, a boat ride on the Yangtze and shopping in Shanghai [makes yawning noise]. Or you can remove yourself from the souvenir shops and luxury hotels, get a local street map and travel on word-of-mouth. Lonely Planet would go bankrupt if people actually took my travel advice, but you definitely see more of the real China my way.

Finally, what’s next for someone who’s been everywhere in China?

My publisher and I have been talking about taking the “Portrait of a People” concept to other countries in the region. I would jump at the chance. So I have no idea where I’ll be this time next year.

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China expert and photojournalist Tom Carter spent 2 years backpacking to all 33 provinces in China to compile the photographs in his groundbreaking, 600-page tribute CHINA: Portrait of a People, the most comprehensive book of photography on modern China ever published by a single author, available directly from Blacksmith Books.

CHINA: Portrait of a People, by Tom Carter
Genre: Travel / Photography / Art / China
ISBN: 978-988-99799-42
Size: 15cm x 15cm, soft cover, 640 pages, 800 full color images, with maps of each province
Published: Summer 2008 by Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong, in association with Haven Books
Price: US$35.95

Also for sale: Tom's super cool China postcards.

CHINA: Portrait of a People ~ the book trailer

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