Friday, July 29, 2011

Newspaper Version Of "Fading Lives" Review

The Edmonton Journal newspaper hard copy version of the "Fading Lives" review came out today.  The title of the article is "Images of hidden, forbidden Asia open new photo gallery". It was a nice half page article, I was quite pleased with how it turned out.  Many thanks to Larry Louie and his wife Joanna for helping to get the article pubished. Thanks also to the writer Janice Ryan for the wonderful job she did.

The one thing that I was a bit disappointed with was the Journals choice of which of my photographs to use. The article several times refers to the sex trade worker aspect of my photography, it speaks about the dangerous environments I shoot in etc. What do they choose as an example to illustrate this work? A postage stamp size image of a young monk in a temple calmly sitting at peace.

Oh well nothings perfect, the online version which will reach a bigger audience has 6 photos linked (2 for each photographer) so that's great! We also have all our websites linked to the story so if the reader really want to see the dangerous more edgy work they can that way.