honghe – Mimo Khair Creative

The Woman Who Had Never Seen Herself

Feb 17, 2025

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in CHINA, inspiration, portrait, street photography, Travel

During my travels in Honghe, Yunnan, I encountered a way of life so untouched by the modern world that it felt like stepping into a different time. In a small village, where women from ethnic minorities carried heavy baskets of rocks to build their homes and grains from the fields, there was a raw simplicity…

In Street Photography Expect the Unexpected~ Yunnan

Mar 28, 2015

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~mimo~

in art, CHINA, inspiration, Photography, street, Yunnan

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

Mar 22, 2015

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~mimo~

in CHINA, Photography, Yunnan

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…

Yunnan’s Smoke Culture~

Jan 18, 2015

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~mimo~

in CHINA, Photography

Going back through images from a past trip to Yunnan’s Honghe area. I am planning a return visit to the region very soon. This is the first of a series on images of smoking inside the traditional life of the ethnic minorities residing in Yunnan.

Day 31~ October 31st~ Yunnan

Nov 1, 2012

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in children, CHINA, inspiration, life, Photography, Travel, Yunnan

As harsh and as raw as Yunnan was to travel through, I am counting the days till I am able to go back there and be charmed again by its wild intensity. I have been told that the way I processed the photos of this past month has been too contrasty, too sharp, too extreme,…

Day 30~ October 30th~ Yunnan

Oct 31, 2012

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in CHINA, history, Photography, story, street, Yunnan

Since the 7th century in China, Opium was ingested for medicinal purposes and never smoked. Then in the 17th centurycame the Europeans and introduced the mixing of opium with tobacco to be smoked making it the most addictive practice among the Chinese. This led to the two famous opium wars and after several attempts from…

Day 29~ October 29th~ Yunnan

Oct 30, 2012

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in children, CHINA, inspiration, life, Photography, Yunnan

There are still remote places in China where white people are rarely seen and can still cause quite a reaction from the locals. One of my travel companions was blonde (considered very strange and alien in China) and she was almost certain to draw a shriek from children in each village we set foot in…

Day 23~ October 23rd~ Yunnan

Oct 24, 2012

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in inspiration, life, Photography, Yunnan

To stand tall with your head in the clouds whilst your legs are planted firmly on the ground is to truly be living as a human dreams to live…

Day 22~ October 22nd~ Yunnan

Oct 23, 2012

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in inspiration, life, parenting, Photography, story, street, Yunnan

Have you ever noticed how children can change expressions so fast without being hung up on the effects of each emotion they experience? We adults tend to carry baggage through our emotions that causes us to often hold grudges, feel anger, thoughts of contempt, attachment, jealousy, animosity… the list goes on. When children fight, they…

Day 20~ October 20th~ Yunnan

Oct 21, 2012

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in inspiration, life, Photography, story, street, Yunnan

When getting food requires you to go up and down a mountain, then its value increases tenfold. Hani man with his crop of corn~ Yunnan

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