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  • Lost in the Wires of the Modern World

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    Growing up felt simpler. There was time to wander, to get lost in the woods, to stare at the sky without distraction. Our identities weren’t shaped by likes, comments, or endless scrolling. We existed in the present, free from the need to curate ourselves. Today, the world moves faster, and for the younger generation, reality…

  • Behind the glitzy face of Shanghai

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    Behind the modern facade of Shanghai and the fashionable lifestyle of its rich, is a world of tradition hidden in the city’s old alleys. Every week when I visit these neighborhoods, I find less and less of them left. The city is changing so rapidly and the new has no room for the old. Modernization…

  • Behind the screen windows of Shanghai’s alleys

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    Shanghainese women, famous for their strong personalities and their control of the household including their men have become a stereotype in China. The wife in Shanghai is known to make her husband hand in his whole salary at the end of the month and to only give him back a small portion as pocket-money as she…

  • Day 14~ February 14th~ Lebanon

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    I was often asked after leaving Lebanon for good: “if you love it so much, why did you leave it?”, “if it is that beautiful why aren’t you there?” But when I remember what drove me out, it was not really the war, not the seeking of adventure, not my love for travel, no, it…

  • Day Two Hundred Fifty Six, October 5, 2011

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    City life is fast, unrelenting, and always moving. At all time, you are pushed and shoved into different directions with the moving crowd, unless you are able to move against the rushing current. How do you do something that counts in a sea of humanity? How do you swim against the stream? How do you…

  • Day Two Hundred Four, August 14, 2011

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    Fences are so telling about the state of affair of humans today. They are so symbolic of the condition that human relationships have developed into, the me and you, the us and them, the mine and yours. I was researching fences today trying to understand especially the photographer’s fascination with fences when I came across…

  • Day One Hundred Sixty Five, July 6, 2011

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    And how many communication gadgets do you own and how addicted are you to them? Almost everyone I know flirts daily with at least one phone, one computer, one ipod, one ipad, one game with a wireless connection, among other newly invented virtual reality toys, and they spend a large chunk of the day engrossed…

  • Day One Hundred Sixty Two, July 3, 2011

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    We love to draw lines in our modern world. We enjoy keeping order by creating clearly defined and fixed rules and regulations about what can and cannot be done. You must be 21 years old to drink (at least in America), you must be 16 years old to drive, you must be a male to…

  • Day Thirty Eight, March 1, 2011

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    After many years of severe restrictions and quotas limiting work seeking migrations across provinces in China, in 2002 a new law was passed to allow migrant workers permanent residence in cities like Shanghai. They are then segregated into skilled and well off workers, or lower class workers with less pay and very modest living conditions.…