Mimo Khair Creative

Tag: documentary

  • Unforgettable Mandalay~ 

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    Innocent, untouched, warm, human, uncorrupted, devout, kind, charming…. the people I am meeting in Myanmar. I find myself smiling constantly and feeling grateful to be experiencing a culture so rich, and I pray for the hands of our modern world to go easy in their inevitable plans of tourist invasions and homogenization.  Day 2~ Myanmar 

  • By Art She Lives~ Syrian Refugee

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    She makes jewelry as part of the rehabilitation and education programs that ‘Beyond’, a local Lebanese NGO does with the children in the Syrian refugee camps.

  • The Soul of Yunnan~

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    Every new journey gives me a renewed set of reasons to do what I love to do. I love the art of photography. Time stops when I am in the streets of a new place, meeting people, looking through their eyes, watching them from a distance as they do what they do, and feeling a…

  • For the Love of People~ Yunnan

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    Attempting documentary photography and not feeling compassionate love for people would be pointless as far as I am concerned. I love feeling the humanity in other people’s eyes, to guess at what they are feeling, to lock eyes with them even for a brief moment, to be part of their world for the time I…

  • In Street Photography Expect the Unexpected~ Yunnan

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      After about a 4 hour flight from Shanghai to Kunming in Yunnan and sorting out the small inevitable complications like changing cars, drivers, lunch and settling everyone to a journey of unexpected events, we set off to our first stop on the workshop, the town of Shiping. After a first night not short of…

  • The Ethnic Minority Culture of Yunnan~ China

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    I returned with a small group of photographers last week to this remote region of China’s Yunnan Province that haunted me since my last visit to the area a couple of years back. It is the type of journey you would do if you were really in love with photography and different cultures that make up pieces…

  • Family Ties in the Culture of Yunnan’s Ethnic Minorities

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    In my journeys into the remote villages of China’s Yunnan province, I was moved by the closeness of the older generation with the children of the tribe. Physical proximity seemed to be an easement factor relied upon in raising the children and arming them with needed confidence as they developed. Parents and grandparents went about…

  • Yunnan’s Smoke Culture~ 3

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    The province of Yunnan, stretching over 394,000 square kilometers in the far southwest of the Republic of China, is rich in color, tradition and history. More than 30% of its population of 45 million is made up of over 25 ethnic minorities like the Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Miao, Mozuo and Dai people. Most of…

  • Yunnan’s Smoke Culture~ 2

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    A few more portraits in this series as I travel through an extensive archive of photographs from Yunnan revisiting a world so different to yours or mine.

  • The clouds of his mind~ Yunnan

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    Men puffing out tobacco smoke has become such a common daily sight for us living in China, people smoke in the rain, on bikes, while working, in classrooms, and sometimes even while eating! Yunnan was no different. The ladies smoked their pipes leisurely while the men smoked cigarettes and water pipes. The tobacco fields can…