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.

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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.

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by 2mccs

Comment:
Your essay captivated me. I've been through the images several times now.

If these are your first images from doing street photography, it makes me very eager to see the images from your next outing. These are wonderful. Thanks for sharing.

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by markwiley

Comment:
What an interesting selection of image. Everyone seems somehow pre-occupied and unaware of your presence. I'm assuming these were shot either with a camera phone or a smaller camera for it would be hard to be as unobtrusive with a bigger camera.

Thanks for sharing.

WhatHappens
by ubique

Comment:
I don't have any words - this one maybe my favourite of all your essays to date. Inspiring stuff as always

Outward Bound
by rooum

Comment:
Oh gosh - I don't remember this one (I guess I didn't vote this challenge last year as I was travelling). Beautiful image !