Its came out pretty good I think, but let me know what you think, please.
MOMENTS – The new bi-monthly photography e-zine from SEA/collectiv is out and you can download it here.
Its a PDF and weighs in at about 4MB (20 pages), not too too big – and it is chock full of some pretty nice and quite diverse photography… including a modest and mysterious contribution from the Dude and his little monster Nikon camera pimped-out with a 20mm lens. Think wide-angle and big-picture.
OK, you need more of a tease than that? Say no more, nudge-nudge, wink-wink… here are a few of the photos from my series called Mysterious Little Houses in the Alley that didn’t make it into the magazine. Gotta pay a bigger bribe to the editor for the next edition (Just kidding of course, just kidding… insider Cambodian courruption humor).
I really like my small contribution, which right there is something rather unusual. Most of the time I see all the faults and very little of the good points in my own work. Call me hyper-critical if you like, but that’s just the way it is, generally. But this time I really like the series I put together right in my own backyard.
Just little houses in the alley behind my apartment here in Phnom Penh. No people, just lots of evidence of people. And lots of nice colors and textures and a certian kind of straightforward honesty, but also a bit of mystery.
Like I said, please do let me know your thoughts if you have the time. Thanks!
Ande now, back by popular demand… some fresh-from-the-steamy-hot-streets-of-Phnom-Penh Street Photography.
And my renewed commitemnt to post new photos every week from my semi-big town here in SE Asia.
From Monday (just two days ago… osrry for the dealy, but I shot so many photos it took a few days to get ‘em processed and sorted)…
Phnom Penh street food vendor.
A kid, his sister on the bike and big brothers trying to ignore all of the above as they concentrate on their Cambodian chess battle.
A very nice kid who ought to be in school, but instead is scavenging garbage with the rest of his family.
Another nice young kid spending her days with her charcoal vendor family.
I’d like to add that these kids are not abused (Better to say that I see no indication at all of any abuse whatsoever) and are cherished by their families, but economic realities being what they are here in The Kingdom, it is very common to see small children doing hard and entirely honest work.
Groovin’ on the Chinese soap operas…
Tah-dahh!
The end.
