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CHINA 2007

Shanghai
gallery: Shanghai 		FengJing: An Ancient Water Town
gallery: FengJing: An Ancient Water Town 		Nanjing
gallery: Nanjing 		Ping Yao
gallery: Ping Yao
Beijing
gallery: Beijing 		Mutianyu Great Wall
gallery: Mutianyu Great Wall 		The Face of China
gallery: The Face of China 		The Children Are The Future
gallery: The Children Are The Future

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Sheila Weinberg 29-Apr-2008 18:36
Very creative. Interesting people in artistic settings. You capture the moment and the titles are great.
Phil Douglis19-Apr-2008 23:34
I just spent a few hours looking at your China images, and am very encouraged by what I see. Your eye seems to have matured significantly -- there are so many substantive images here that abstract the subject, ask questions of the viewer, pose incongruities, and convey richly expressed human values. I have indicated those images that I think are very special, and why I think they are.

As for your photo-editing choices, you mentioned to Tim, in your comment on his shot of the little hutong girl hiding behind a door knob, you have difficulty making choices when it comes to editing and presenting your work to others. This leads to redundancy -- saying the same thing over again. No harm is done by the redundant editing here, since you do not intend your pictures to work together, where the meaning of the sum is more important than the meaning of the individual images. But if the time comes when a gallery is intended to be seen as coherent story or essay, you will have to bite the bullet and become more selective and emphatic as a photo-editor.
Less is usually more when it comes to expression, and while it is hard to separate yourself from the making of a picture, if cumulative communication is desired, you must stand back and look at each picture objectiely in terms of what it says to an audience, and then say it once and say it well, so that each and every image in a gallery has a job to do in terms of the whole presentation. Good luck, iris.
Michael Brodey06-Apr-2008 00:17
Iris,
Lots of great photos, but my favorite is "Alone".
JJooan Berman 05-Apr-2008 01:26
The photos in these galleries are fantastic. They are not just artistic but also thought provoking and emotionally moving. I've been in China, but not with your eye. I thoroughly enjoyed visiting it again with you!
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