Sausage and Eggs
This reminds me of a Scottish fry up. Be home February!
Reading List
- James Meek: The People's Act of Love
- Philip Roth: Everyman
- F.S. Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night
- Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
- Mo Yan: The Republic of Wine
- Mencius
- Cormack McCarthy: The Road
Viewing List
- P.T. Anderson: There Will Be Blood
- The Wire (TV)
- Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times
- Christopher Nolan: The Prestige
Dong Minority
- Photographs taken on an aimless wander through a Dong village, situated in the Guizhou mountains.
Li River
- A winter trip to the Li river in Guangxi. We are looking into the possibility of making this area our temporary China home.
Portraits
- Miscellaneous portraits, from monks to drunks.
December 07, 2008
December 03, 2008
Taxi Driver
Break time.
December 02, 2008
Divide
Guilin
October 17, 2008
Sleeper
Recently, I've been having incredible trouble sleeping in China. The
school next door to my flat plays rousing music at 6:30 am, at a volume
which it's own speakers can't cope with not to mention my head. This seems to be the cue for
the entire neighbourhood to get up, coughing and spluttering in unison,
some taking the unsubtle approach and simply yelling
AAWOOOYYYYAAAARGGHHHHHHH, a more maverick attempt at clearing whatever
monstrous affliction blights their asophogus'.
So the man above I certainly envy. He could be on a deserted beach, waves lapping gently at his feet. But actually he's next to the busiest road in Guilin.
October 09, 2008
Push-ups
A 50-something does push-ups half way up a mountain some time after day break.
October 03, 2008
Beep Beep
The sign says 'sound your horn' - not something that people need a reminder to do here in China.
September 30, 2008
Ink
A young boy learning the ancient Chinese art of calligraphy.
September 17, 2008
Mid-Autumn Day
A little boy plays with a light on Mid-Autumn day, a traditional Chinese festival to celebrate the fullest moon.
August 30, 2008
The Missus
In other news, last week I got married. Here is the remarkable and stunning Daisy, in the first picture I ever took of her:
While I'm still struggling to understand that anyone would marry me without either physical or pharmaceutical coercion, I'm reminded of this short anecdote:
Once after a heated quarrel a wife said to her husband, "you know, I was a fool when I married you". The husband muttered under his breath, "yes dear, but I was in love and didn't really notice."
August 27, 2008
Study Hard
Or as the silver-tongued Chairman Mao put it, "hard hard study, day day up." His English was never particularly impressive.
This young girl I met in a cavernous book shop in Xian. She spoke gregarious English, striking up conversation as she bounced on one foot then the other, extremely sure of herself in a manner that only kids get away with.
This young girl I met sheltering by the side of the road on a rainy day in Zhengzhou. Her mother collects and recycles rubbish for their income, and cannot afford to send the daughter to school.
What's that?! A heavy handed juxtaposition? You best believe.
I will attempt to write more posts on this stuttering blog now that I'm finally settled in a new city, and hopefully switch more from photography to journalism. Right after I learn Chinese.....
