Tag: pavement
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Nothing is as it seems~
The same place on a rainy day is not the same as it were yesterday. We are creatures influenced by our environment and something as small as our emotions can make the world a different place to be in on a day like today which is nothing like yesterday… image taken on a wet pavement…
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Faceless Urbanism
How often do I catch myself walking in the city with my eyes down watching the pavement and the flow of faceless people passing by. The city can do that to us, it can make us reduce humanity to a flow of bodies passing by, forgetting that each one of them has a story, a…
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Day 11~ November 11th~ New York
The city of unusual impressions, if you are looking to see something different, happenings out of the ordinary, then New York is guaranteed to not disappoint you. The day to day is a moving theater, and a walk to the coffee shop can be a daily adventure. This is a place where you can dare…
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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 4~ July 4th~ Vietnam
It has been a challenge to keep the daily posts on time during this trip. Arrived in Beirut on July 5th to find a national internet power down, so here, doing the best I can. One of the great struggles a street photographer has while walking in a new city is trying not to be…
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Day 2~ July 2nd~ Vietnam
While I was living in New York City a few years back, I heard a story from a friend about eyes that stayed with me since. She said that a native American man came to the city once and realized how hard and unnatural the streets are on the human eyes. He explained that people…
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Day 26~ May 26th~ Cambodia
For some, education is a valued gifting, and need is their sole motivation… Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Day 20~ May 20th~ Cambodia
We are often asked by others about the place we call home, especially if we tend to move around the planet. Looking at this photo of a family in Phnom Penh in my archives, I realized that the answer is simple. This family has created a little home on the pavement of a big city,…
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Day One Hundred Fifty Eight, June 29, 2011
Did you ever entertain the thought of taking out a lounge chair, carrying it out to the pavement of a busy street of an densely populated city, opening it up and stretching there to chill? Chinese people baffle me with their ability to just let it all hang for a half hour when they need…
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Day One Hundred Fifty Seven, June 28, 2011
You see them every day, at all times of the day, weekdays, weekends, working, toiling, sweating, carrying loads, in construction sites, cleaning streets, selling goods, resting on sides of roads, falling asleep in the shade to catch their breath. They are very important elements in the canvas that is Shanghai, a city rushing towards the…