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03-JUN-2005

Not Here, Not Anywhere

This is People's Park, Shanghai. During the Concessions it was the race course, the ultimate symbol of burgoise extravagence. It was reclaimed for the people. What an irony. This image is striking for me because this man is not begging in his posture, he is doing more than that. He bows his head almost in submission to his fate, and his fate is being fulfilled. He represents the forgotten in China's evolution, he simply does not seem to exist.

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Guest 09-May-2006 18:46
At the center of my foot.Is a pebble wedged like a thorn.In younger days I could hear its teeth click with warning.When I was naive and foolish.Walking with time wasted to fading paths.Now that prick is rubbed ,soiled and worn pointless from rejection.A petty annoyance beneath my new callouses.Largely ignored by the skin of my awareness.That is polished silver by the modern chic whir.
Kal Khogali04-Jun-2005 11:46
Yes Phil, same place, just around the Corner. This is People's Park, Shanghai. During the Concessions it was the race course, the ultimate symbol of burgoise extravagence. This image is striking for me because this man is not begging in his posture, he is doing more than that. He bows his head almost in submission to his fate, and his fate is being fulfilled. He represents the forgotten in China's evolution, he simply does not seem to exist.
Phil Douglis03-Jun-2005 17:45
This is the strongest image of them all, Kal, because it uses the subject as context, and uses the context as subject. The image is about a homeless man being ignored, left behind, helpless and useless. It reminds of Jen's great image in her subway story -- only it stresses the people who are doing the ignoring, and uses the homeless man as as context. The blur works wonderfully to express movement and energy, while the sharp focus on the much smaller scale homeless man diminishes him appropriately.

(I think I know where this image was taken - not far from the Park Hotel, where I stayed when I visited Shanghai last June. In fact, I took my own Shanghai homeless image not far from this spot:http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/31311560 )
Great job, Kal.

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