Tag: new york
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Day 9~ November 9th~ New York
Below these cranes, so much history was written. The Brooklyn Navy Yard, first started functioning in 1806, was most active during world war II, when more than 70,000 people were employed to make the battle ships of the American navy. It was very impressive to look into this historical place and imagine what it would…
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Day 8~ November 8th~ New York
Out of about 4 million people found in New York City on a given day, only about 1.6 million are local residents. Most of the rest are travelling back and forth in and out of the magical island.
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Day 7~ November 7th~ New York
Everyone has something to say, a message to relay, an opinion to voice, a word to put in, that’s how a city gets its unique urban color. photo~ Dumbo~ Brooklyn
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Day 6~ November 6th~ New York
A ‘love it or hate it’ place, New York is not for everyone. It can appear as an overwhelming monster to some, where to some it feels like the home they have been seeking all their lives. Both feelings are so strong and intense that there can be no middle way where this city is…
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Day 5~ November 5th~ New York
Speed is definitely a word I would associate with New York, sometimes to the level of being dehumanized. I remember times when I received phone calls at work and hung up 2 seconds later because I thought the person on the other line was speaking too slowly. Other times when I called more relaxed places…
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Day 3~ November 3rd~ New York
For New York to take you in, all you need is a dream. When I think back on what my dream was going to the big city fresh from college and coming from a tiny country so far away, only one word comes to my mind: possibility. This was the place I believed anything was…
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Day 2~ November 2nd~ New York
Being a photographer, shadows intrigue, evade, flee, hover and enchant us in so many ways as they claim their place in our images. Shadows are strange phenomena, aren’t they? They are the reverse projections of whatever object is blocking the light, almost like the doubles of that object that follow it wherever it goes, sometimes…
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Day 1~ November 1st~ New York
This month’s images will present a stark contrast to those of last month. During the month of November I will revisit the magnificent city I called home for more than 15 years, the place where I began to independently refashion my life to who I am today. Once you have lived in New York, any…
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Day 15~ February 15~ Lebanon
On a few occasions while living in New York and when answering ‘Lebanon’ to the ‘where do you come from?’ question, I was hit with the following questions: “do you have a camel?”, or “how does it feel to live in the desert?”, and my favorite: “wow, I did not know that you were African!”.…