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Morning Coffee Talk~18/365

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date December 18, 2021
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girl behind train window, Istanbul, 2021

Good Morning,

It is winter in this part of the world and everyone spends a large part of their day indoors, seeing the world through window panes. How much of our lives is actually lived behind such barriers, in our cars, homes, schools, offices, airplanes, buses…

It feels like we see the world and the people around us through a frame, a view finder and that can only be part of the picture. How much does that influence our communication, tolerance, understanding of others, well-being, and humanity?

As the pandemic progresses, this lifestyle becomes more and more the normal way of going on and we are limited to our confined environments and lack of physical contact with others.

How many of our children are living mostly behind screens and communicating virtually with their friends? What influence will this have on our future as a human race?

Tags china, communication, confinement, covid-19, frames, future, germany, humanity, isloation, masks, myanmar, pandemic, photography, planet, windows, winter, xinjiang

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Breaking out of our self-made prisons~

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date February 24, 2018
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self made prisons~ Kashgar

It has been said that the chains that bind us are mostly self-manufactured by our own self-esteem and pride. Personal development is an uncomfortable journey upward and into the unknown, if only we dare.

Day 54 of 365~

Image taken in the entrance to the old tea house in Kashgar, Xinjiang

Tags bicycle, black and white, blur, china, city, destiny, kashgar, man, old tea house, photography, prison, staircase, street, tea house, urban, xinjiang

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Protecting Innocence~

mindful of their innocence~ Kashgar.jpg They arrive to this earth relying on our coded ability to host them as they take human form. They are born tiny and helpless and it is up to us to support, care for and nurture them till they can care for themselves. They carry in them the promise and possibility of a better tomorrow. They are our most valuable assets. Why can’t we all put their wellbeing before that of wealth, power and greed?

Day 53 of 365~

Image taken of a child in the old streets of Kashgar, Xinjiang

Tags children, china, human rights, humanity, kashgar, our children first, people, photography, schoolshooting, street, xinjiang

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Closer to the sky~

Somewhere life goes on, just simply, disconnected from our worldwide web. When you have the universal web of sky, sun, stars and earth, why would you downgrade to the contaminated world of Social media?

Day 52 of 365~

Image taken on the Karakoram Highway, old silk road, Xinjiang.

Tags china, connection, hut, information, karakol, karakoram highway, photography, road, shadow, sky, social media, sun, tajik, tradition, travel, woman, world wide web, xinjiang

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Have you found your art?~

Is there something that allows you to live life more passionately? Do you find yourself doing something regularly that you cannot not do and it makes time as you know it stretch, fly by or completely come to a halt? Is there a place inside your world that only you hold the key to? Because only when you find your art do you truly know real passion. Don’t you love watching a musician lost inside their music, a dancer moving as if in a trance or a cook absolutely absorbed in what they are creating?

Inside of that magical world of real art there is little room for boredom, lethargy, competition or ego. Inspiration, satisfaction, happiness and the right kind of struggle seem to resonate with it.

That is the world I want to live in if I can be so lucky.

Image of a young boy who loved music and created a self made instrument of wood and string. I met him in 2011 in the old beautiful city of Kashgar, in Xinjiang, China

Tags art, black and white, boy, china, inspiration, inspiring, instrument, kashgar, mimo khair, music, photography, xinjiang

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Tajik Smile~ Tashkurgan

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In the town of Tashkurgan, home of the Tajik people in Xinjiang, bordering Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, I met this boy in the old mountainous Pamir region. It is said that this town marks the middle way between Europe and China. The faces I saw there were unforgettable.

Tags afghanistan, black and white, boy, china, mimo khair, mountain, pakistan, pamir, portrait, silk road, smile, tajik, tajikistan, tashkorgan, tashkurgan, xinjiang

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365 from the archive~ Month 5~ Xinjiang

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date July 1, 2012
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Another month completed, on to the next. You can see more about this project HERE

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Tags 365, mimo khair, photography, project, slideshow, xinjiang

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Day 30~ June 30th~ Xinjiang

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date July 1, 2012
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Being a lover of travel, you learn to get yourself used to enduring the pain of separation. When you travel to a new place it is not just the people, the buildings, the nature and the food that you meet, but also the essences that live in that place and those are the things you end up missing the most. The very subtle things that you don’t see with your eyes, but only feel, can be with as they come together to make up the version of that part of the earth and imprint it in your mind.

As all journeys must end, so does this month’s adventure into the beautiful world that is Xinjiang. It was a very enjoyable but a difficult month for me in terms of finding the 30 images to show you from the 4000 in my files. There is so much more that remains unseen and so many stories that remain untold.

But on to the next…

Tags china, color, essences, human, life, man, mimo khair, opal, people, photography, portrait, separation, street, travel, unseen, village, xinjiang

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Day 29~ June 29th~ Xinjiang

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date June 30, 2012
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under the big blue sky — underneath the big blue sky

All humans on this planet are created with the same basic design, spirit, soul, mind, brain, body, emotions, senses… all are born and all will eventually pass on.

Thoughts like these make me see people differently while traveling in strange places. The knowledge that we are all human, that we all get sad, we get happy, we are curious, we are suspicious, we dream, we wish, we love, we dislike, we eat, we sleep, we procreate, we create, and we share this beautiful planet under the great big blue sky. These are the wonders that make me love traveling, discovery and meeting other humans.

photo taken: In the courtyard of the old mosque in Kashgar, a gathering of Uyghur men.

Tags china, color, contemplation, human, humanity, kashgar, life, men, mimo khair, photography, sky, street, travel, wide angle, xinjiang

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Day 28~ June 28th~ Xinjiang

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date June 28, 2012
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Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb

There is something so endearing about watching siblings helping each other. It is nature’s way. They were placed together to foster bonds in some cases unbreakable and incomprehensible to the outside world. These two boys passing by on my last day in the old city of Kashgar just caught me and drove me into a contemplation about life, family and the mysteries of being human.

Tags backpack, bicycle, bike, boys, brothers, china, city, color, hat, kashgar, mimo khair, panning, riding, street, urban, xinjiang