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During Chinese Spring Festival, various parks around Beijing host ‘Miaohui – 庙会’ (temple fairs), in which many chinese gather to buy arts and crafts and try different cuisines from around China. There are also shows performed – like acrobatics and lion dances. This year I went with the Beijing Photo Walks club to Grand View Garden (‘Da Guan Yuan – in the south west of the city.
Energetic Lion Dance
The lion dancers have to be very agile.
The lions dance in the winter sun.
An actor makes his way to the stage.
A couple steal a quiet moment alone at the fair.
Two girls pose of a photographer, after putting on traditional dress.
A mother asked me to take a picture of her daughter.
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Little Boots SHAKE DJ Tour Set at Yu Gong Yi Shan, 27th Nov 2011.
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Beijing Photo Walks is a facebook group, organised by a ex-colleague and talented photographer Nic, who meet in an area of Beijing every week to shoot an area of town. Went to a fantastic exhibition first – Beijing on the Move – which displayed really interesting photos of Beijing from around 1890 to present day. The curator Lars, one half of Beijing Postcards, gave a really great talk too, so everyone was really geared up to shoot around the Gu Luo area afterwards.
Man and dog.
Boys playing with counters
Checking phones
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An interview with men’s fashion/lifestyle magazine Mangazine, in Guangzhou.
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DJ BB – a Taiwanese DJ working in Beijing
DJ BB
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I was asked to photoshop a mate into a picture of a model for a fake relationship advice column for a well-known newspaper in Beijing. The weekly column, Ask Alessandro, was a satire, pertaining to an outdated Italian stereotype. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece on it:
The piece is so vulgar, we cannot even think of a way to summarize it for a family newspaper’s Web site – nor to provide a link to it (suffice it to say it involves an incoherent and offensive discussion of the female anatomy).
Quite a few papers and blogs picked up on the story before Ask Alessandro was pulled, never to amuse the Beijing expat readership again.
Photoshopping Alessandro
Alessandro's done it again
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