Tag: lady
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Day 10~ March 10th~ Egypt
When ‘joy’ is able to attend you, life takes on a brilliant glow… Imagine these simple moments of connection, when meeting some stranger’s eyes can cause you and them both to overflow with joy, with a contentment and a knowing that all is well and a great unexplainable happiness is present at the thought of…
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Day Two Hundred Ninety Six, November 14, 2011
I remember being 20 and feeling completely immortal. I always felt that death is a far away journey an the reaper did not have my number and had no plans for me. And then years passed and I started feeling the idea of mortality creeping closer. I wonder what it would feel like being on…
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Day Two Hundred Fourty One, September 20, 2011
I pass them by everyday, migrants from the provinces, on the streets of the city, pulling and pushing, their heavy loads, on bikes and on foot, male and female, old and even older, weariness in their eyes, wrinkles on their forehead, under the Shanghai sky. And they remind me every single day, that I have…
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Day Two Hundred Twenty One, August 31, 2011
Walking around the streets and alleys of Shanghai, I love to meet old people, the ones that represent the China that I had read about before moving here, the China of movies, of books and historical documentaries. And these people are still there, walking with their fans, with their tiny previously bound feet, with their…
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Day One Hundred Eighteen, May 20, 2011
I was walking in a small alley in Shanghai with my camera and zoom lens thinking that today I will not photograph people, I was looking for details, patterns, small things as that is where my mind was. Suddenly I hear a giggle, a shy hello. I looked back and this beautiful old lady was…
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Day Eighty One, April 13, 2011
Spring is finally here in full swing! I love the first days of Spring when you open your windows and the mild breeze rushes in to caress your face. It feels like a time of renewal, new growth, blossoming trees, flowers popping up in multicolor everywhere you look. It is a time to put away…
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Day Sixty, March 23, 2011
One hundred and four years old! Can you imagine? I met this beautiful lady in a little alley in Shanghai today. It was a very beautiful, clear, and sunny Spring day today and almost everyone I met was reflecting the warm sunshine. I stopped to speak to this lady who was sitting quietly in the…
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Day Forty Seven, March 10, 2011
Yes, the Shanghainese still sport pajamas in the street. It is mostly the older generations, but wearing sleepwear outdoors is still a wide custom and is seen on a daily basis around city streets. The reasons, when you investigate, vary from the fact of people sharing bathrooms outside their homes with other families, to comfort,…
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Day Twenty Six, February 17, 2011
Today the Chinese New Year festivities come to an end with a big boom! It is the Lantern Festival’s main celebration. I went to Yu Yuan (Yu Gardens) in Puxi to witness the festivities and now as I write this, the sky is on fire with millions of fireworks that are going off all over…
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Day Eight, January 30, 2011
Today I was out most of the day and evening in the freezing streets of Shanghai with my camera. In the evening my friend Sabrina joined me at Yu Gardens to photograph the lanterns and the massive decorations that are being prepared for the Chinese New Year on February 3rd. After a zillion photos, this…