The Chun Yueng Street market in North Point is not the largest, nor best known of Hong Kong’s markets. Still relatively unknown to tourists, it is a great way to uncover Hong Kong’s living street culture, and mingle with a market lifestyle that is neighborhood based. Continue reading “Chun Yeung Street Market – Hong Kong”
Feature by Bulkka Magazine. I explain the genesis of Igrushka and Pripyat–my work in Ukraine related to Chernobyl.
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As a photographer and somebody working in radiated environments (Chernobyl), the issue of airport scanners intrigues me. Are they safe? Can you really see somebody naked? Is the person in the back room secretly checking us out, or laughing at us?
Sixty years ago today, on September 26th, 1941, nearly a million Soviet troops lost the First Battle of Kiev to the combined German Army Group South and Army Group Center. They outnumbered the Germans nearly two to one, but Soviet defense tactics were still extremely primitive and no match against German armor.
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The outpost at Land Measuring Point 10, more commonly referred to as NIP-10, was where Man first managed to send a message to Venus. When this happened, it was hardly a surprise to its residents—this was precisely what they intended. Furthermore, they acquired a small sense of entitlement a few years earlier, when they were the first people to see the far side of the Moon. Continue reading “Abandoned Soviet Tracking Station NIP-10”