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A PHOTO BACK STORY# 35: IS THERE ANY OF OLD JAPAN IN THE POST-MODERN?
A photo friend Eric Beecroft sent me a text written in 1933 by Japanese writer, Tanizaki Junichiro lamenting the loss of Japanese traditions to mass-produced, run of the mill modern, read western, conveniences. For a moment I did not realize that I was reading an 81 year-old text because it read so current. Unlike in […]
A PHOTO BACK STORY# 34: FARMER WATCHES FULL-THROATED ERUPTION OF GUNUNG MERAPI, THE BIGGEST IN 100 YEARS. NEAR YOGYAKARTA, JAVA, INDONESIA. From Living with Volcanoes: Giving Life & Taking It.
A rice farmer stands watching to the eruption of Merapi Volcano’s biggest eruption in over 100 years, Muntilan, Java, Indonesia. The final death toll from the volcanic eruption was 353 people. Coming off several years of intense reportage from disaster zones and countries with long simmering civil conflicts, I decided to get away and document […]
A PHOTO BACK STORY# 33: PARADITA DULCE MARIA (SWEET MARY), TIJUANA, MEXICO FROM THE SERIES, “SELLING SPRING: SEX WORKERS SERIES”.
Paradita, Dulce Maria (Sweety Mary) 28 years old from the Mexican state of Guerrero, reclines on bed in hotel used by sex workers on Coahuila Street, Zona Norte, Tijuana, Mexico. Paraditas, or “Standing Girls” are sex workers who may legally ply their trade in Zona Norte, less than 500 m from the Mexican / US […]
A Photo Back Story# 32: Irradiated barn and the Fukushima Nuclear No-Entry Zone.
From “Black Tsunami: Japan 2011” book (FotoEvidence): Cow and her unseen calf housed in a barn right in front of a barrier to the Fukushima nuclear no-entry zone in January 2012, the borderline for the territory too contaminated for human habitation and yet cattle were raised here, and their milk, exposed to the contaminated winds […]
A Photo Back Story# 31: Sending People Fleeing.
I had never frightened anyone to the point of fleeing me on sight until I had some of the most bizarre series of encounters in the Tanah Towa area in the south of Sulawesi, Indonesia in 1994. I arrived in Bira to photograph “pinisi perahu” ship building (right photo), once employed by Bugis pirates to […]
A Photo Back Story# 30: Half a lifetime ago.
This 1987 photo was made exactly half a lifetime ago. I was full of dreams/plans, rarely had more than this month’s rent, lived in a beach town in Southern California, and waited on tables at night in an Italian restaurant (got to love the value of a university education!). In my off hours, I’d take […]
A Photo Back Story# 29: Helicopters Hovering Overhead.
I have to admit that, since being hunted by a police helicopter in the Fukushima nuclear no-entry zone about a year ago, I can still feel my body tighten when helicopter passes overhead. I am not quite like Ray Liotta in “Good Fella’s” but it strikes me as odd. (I got away.) This police helicopter […]
Slow Train to Kampot, Cambodia 2002
In 2002, the passenger train from Phnom Penh to the coast was the slowest train I had ever ridden, even slower than the train to Kandy in Sri Lanka. Passengers rode in box cards at a velocity little faster than a bicycle, but the strangest thing about the journey was that the train would stop […]
A Photo Back Story# 26: Glad that the bad old days in Central Europe are gone.
Glad that the bad old days are pretty much gone. Seeing just portions of the Berlin Wall and feeling only the slightest echoes of the Soviet Era made me think back to working on the in Budapest in 1988, when the quiet Leica shutter sounded like an atomic bomb. New Stories: http://jameswhitlowdelano.photoshelter.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/james.whitlow.delano Twitter: […]
A Photo Back Story# 25: People Come and People Go, Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy 1988.
People come into lives and people go, and sometimes if feels like it was only a dream. Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy 1988 New Stories: http://jameswhitlowdelano.photoshelter.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/james.whitlow.delano Twitter: @jameswdelano
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