MIMO KHAIR

Tag: people

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Anhui Diaries~

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    From a recent journey to the old villages around Huangshan (yellow mountains) of China’s Anhui province, I was utterly inspired with the landscape, the feeling of calm that blankets the area and the mystical sense of being so far away from it all. It made me think a lot about the nature of water, and…

  • 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.

  • Our Guarded Selves

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    We face the world day after day, week after week, we get shuffled around in lines, into cars, buses and trains, we get bombarded with information and visual stimuli; and the only thing that keeps us sane is the inner sanctum of our lives. We manage to keep parts of us hidden somewhere deep inside,…

  • Faceless Urbanism

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    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…

  • Street Portraits~ Finding Myself in the Streets of Dubai

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    These striking men are part of the foreign working force that powers the engine of the Dubai metropolis. They granted my eye contact and for that I am grateful. Images taken during our last ‘finding yourself in the streets’ street photography workshop earlier this month.