You Name It
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Comment by codfish709:
Buy It!

You Name It
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Comment by jayzundel:
Maybe

You Name It
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Comment by Len Scap:
Wall Dominos Play offs

You Name It
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Comment by raph04:
This one !

You Name It
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Comment by Mond:
Is This Platform 9 3/4 ..?

You Name It
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Comment by Luciemac:
Double Take

Cochin 0001
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Comment by chalice:
I'm a day late and a dollar short getting to the commenting just now. Everything has been said and I agree with them all. Beautiful collection of portraits capturing a sense of time and place. I thoroughly enjoyed them all.

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Comment by jmritz:
beautiful portraits. you have a gift, indeed.

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Comment by salmiakki:
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.

Cochin 0001
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Comment by mariuca:
I am amazed that you don't consider this as an essay - well, perhaps we should have titled all this as "Collections" instead of essays.

Had the privilege of seeing already some of these photographs and as I told you previously, felt like experiencing the "1001 Indian nights", the flavor, the sweetness and the harrowing stories also.
You seem to engage with the people and this relaxed relationship shows in your photographs.
I wish I could learn more of this country as seen by you.