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by 2mccs

Comment:
I just scrolled through ubique's essay and haven't yet commented. Came to yours and found myself doing a double take. For me there are, at first glance, similarities between your essay and Paul's and yet, both are entirely unique.

Somehow, Paul's is less surprising than yours to me at least. We are so used to seeing the Hollywood California that somehow this disturbs the status quo. I enjoyed looking these images a lot and the find myself with lots of open questions. That's always a good thing in my opinion.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to see the Other California.

twinkle
by tvsometime

Comment:
Lovely photo of Lynn Tom. :)

there are places I remember...
by skewsme

Comment:
My highest scoring image in this challenge. Lovely

Down In The Valley
by rooum

Comment:
Beautiful spring day.

free study
by tnun

Comment:
Love it! 8 from me.

1.children
by mariuca

Comment:
I enjoyed your essay - very much an essay I could see myself also shooting. Small vignettes into daily life in Oaxaca. I always look forward to your contributions in this side challenge.

1
by salmiakki

Comment:
Comments from the essay jury
"Lujiabang, Shanghai" by 21_F.gif salmiakki

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D: Wonderful journey into the forgotten and discarded, overlooked or knocked aside by capitalist greed and indifference. The story of endurance and endeavour.

C: A wonderful walk around a place that challenges our notions of the eastern cultures. Powerful and well shot.

P: An essay of a place. In the first photo, the woman dares us to look further. After that, every photo has a floor of rubble. So much is said simply with that, but she also shows how the rubble is coped with, worked around and denied. In the process, she shows us not just a specific place but a specific time... the moment is captured with an essay instead of a shutter click.

H:

Dislikes - but really a suggestion

As a protest, it would be stronger if referenced with the names and occupation of the persons in the images.

Likes

The old has to make way for the new. Is it so? Should it be? Here it is the low-rise that has to make way for the high-rise. No space for the way of life to exist in the cleansed environment, that is true. What is best? How to plan for co-existence, if at all possible. Where to get political will to do so? The only possibility left here is to document it, and educate the future desicionmakers thus. Done well here, in my opinion.

Dante
by MAK

Comment:
Well done ! Glad to see this near the top. Was my favourite in this FS

Under an Indifferent Sun
by insteps

Comment:
Henry, these are truly wonderful. I look forward to your essays so much. Thanks for keeping the momentum with the essays - even when I don't have time to take part, I enjoy the reading and viewing experience immensely.

Marla's comments below are bang on the money. Who needs to look at the Magnum site......

Importance of the First Impression
by posthumous

Comment:
seriously. This is wonderful.