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  • Proudly Corporate?: In the early morning market, a woman tribesman is draped in a cloth that proudly displays the modern corporate signage for "Coca Cola" across her back, Louang Namtha Laos.
    Proudly Corporate?
  • Childhoods Perception: Graffiti of a young girl portrayed on a power box, with her duality separately expressed onto its two front doors, in two separate painting styles; one half is clear and conventionally painted, the other, stressed and distorted, Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
    Childhoods Perception
  • Contradiction A long abandoned, dilapidated general store has a front window adorned with the skulls of two cattle and a sign stating: “I Survived Hwy 50 – the Loneliest Road in America”,  Eureka Nevada United States of America.
    Contradiction
  • Unhappy Celebration: A most unhappy man is captured wearing a most distinctive hat, during the Myanmar Day celebration, Hsipaw Myanmar.
    Unhappy Celebration
  • Beauty in Death: The beauty of a forest devastated by the pine beetle infestation stands in stark contrast to the green hillside and the deep blue cloudless sky, on the Hoodoo Creek Trail - Yoho National Park, British Columbia Canada.
    Beauty in Death
  • Sitting and Waiting: An elderly woman is dressed for the morning chill and is captured waiting, with the story of her life etched on her face, Pai Thailand.
    Sitting and Waiting
  • Long Neck Portrait (B&W): This frontal portrait captures a gentle weariness upon a woman’s face; as a member of a Long-Necked Karen hill tribe she sits in front of her hand made cloth while wearing the characteristic brass rings around her neck, on the Myanmar border near Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
    Long Neck Portrait (B&W)
  • Home Street Home (B&W): A homeless man finds a moment’s sleep, using his flip flops as a pillow, on the stairs of a locked doorway, Wat Ounalom, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Home Street Home (B&W)
  • Far Away Eyes (B & W):  Close-up and disturbed;  this cold black and white figure is a study of tortured introspection, Gardiner Oregon USA.
    Far Away Eyes (B & W)
  • Free To Kill: This road side scene illustrates how the perversion of the American concept of freedom has been linked to an almost patriotic fever to kill, Long Beach, Washington, United States of America.
    Free To Kill
  • Sleep on the Street: A young man sleeps amongst the filth of the street, with only the thinnest of mats between himself and the concrete sidewalk, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Sleep on the Street
  • Morning Market: Women, with their meager offerings before them, stand in the morning market’s sunlight, Muang Sing Laos.
    Morning Market
  • Sunset of Hope: A young girl facing an inevitably dark life of poverty and disappointment, stands alone gazing upon the beauty of a tropical sunset, as distant and transient as hope, Tanjung Pedau Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Sunset of Hope
  • Long Neck Portrait: This frontal portrait captures a gentle weariness upon a woman’s face; as a member of a Kayan Lahwi tribe (Long-Necked Karen hill tribe) she sits in front of her hand made cloth while wearing the characteristic brass rings around her neck, on the Myanmar border near Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
    Long Neck Portrait
  • The New World Order: This profound sculpture, devoid of colour, eerily reflects the desperation of much of the human condition; a single hand emerges holding a begging bowl, pleading for alms, rising above innumerable hands  that desperately thrash about in an attempt to escape Hell on earth, Wat Rong Khun (the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.<br />
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By Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat.
    New World Order
  • Very Long Portrait: The angular portrait view of a woman of a Long-Necked Kayan Lahwi tribe tribe wearing the characteristic brass rings around her neck, on the Myanmar border, near Mae Hong Son Thailand.
    Very Long Portrait
  • Temple Madness: Wat Rong Khun (the White Temple)  at sunset, takes on the spectacularly surreal, as one crosses the bridge over the madness and horror of hell, represented by thrashing hands and mystical creatures, on past the gremlins and guardians that guard Nirvana, in the main temple, Chiang Rai Thailand.<br />
By Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat.
    Temple Madness
  • Hard Sleeping: A Cambodian man, incredibly able to sleep resting on a thin strip of iron, in  a back alley of Bangkok Thailand.
    Hard Sleeping
  • Singapore Sleep: A man is found fast asleep on the stone walkway in the heart of the financial district, Singapore City, Singapore.
    Singapore Sleep
  • Beggars Walk: A young crippled man, begs with cap in mouth, leaving a trail as he wiggles down the filthy roadway,  Ninh Binh Vietnam.
    Beggars Walk
  • Far Away Eyes: A close-up of a painted metal statue of a person deep in thought, with cobwebs covering the eyes, Gardiner Oregon USA.
    Far Away Eyes
  • Beggars Walk (B&W): A young crippled man, begs with cap in mouth, leaving a trail as he wiggles down the filthy roadway,  Ninh Binh Vietnam.
    Beggars Walk (B&W)
  • Life & Death: A recently caught fish sits upon a wooden chopping block, next to a meat cleaver, waiting the completion of it's fate, Ko Muk Thailand.
    Life & Death
  • White Temple Sunset: Gremlins, soldiers and mystical guardians stand before the bridge that rises over the horror of hell on the path to Nirvana, Wat Rong Khun (the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.    <br />
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By Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat.
    White Temple Sunset
  • Far Away Eyes, Blue: Close-up and blue; this cold metallic figure is a study of tortured introspection, Gardiner Oregon USA.
    Far Away Eyes, Blue
  • White Temple, Peach Sky: Under a surrealistic pink coloured sky a passageway takes one through the horrific hands of hell, past gremlins and guardians, on towards heaven, Wat Rong Khun(the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.<br />
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By Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat.
    White Temple, Peach Sky
  • Trees of Mount Saint Helens (B&W&C): A stand of dead and barren trees dominate the stark landscape, the result of the 1980 catastrophic volcanic explosion, Mount Saint Helens, Washington USA.
    Trees of Mount Saint Helens (B&W&C)
  • Whose Looking at Who?: A Caucasian man relaxes in a gallery, gazing at three photographs of coloured people trapped within the insurmountable social and economic barriers of a far removed existence, Chaing Mai Photo Club, Chiang Mai Thailand.
    Whose Looking at Who?
  • Angelic Relief: Wall graffiti captures a mythical scene of a female angel holding in one arm a dead or, dying soldier, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Angelic Relief
  • Sitting and Waiting (B&W): An elderly woman is dressed for the morning chill and is captured waiting, with the story of her life etched on her face, Pai Thailand.
    Sitting and Waiting (B&W)
  • White Temple Warrior: A ferocious, mystical warrior stands before the incredibly intricate Wat Rong Khun (the White Temple) at sunset, Chiang Rai Thailand.
    White Temple Warrior
  • Home Street Home: A homeless man finds a moment’s sleep, using his flip flops as a pillow, on the stairs of a locked doorway, Wat Ounalom, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Home Street Home
  • No Parking: A “no parking” sign has been posted right above a heartfelt piece of graffiti of a female angel holding a dead soldier as they raise, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    No Parking
  • White Temple Morning:  Wat Rong Khun, better known as the White Temple, is both a Hindu and Buddhist temple and is seen in all its elaborate detail at sunrise, Chiang Rai Thailand.
    White Temple Morning
  • Rest and Dread: A solitary man taking a smoke break squats and gazes down his dangerous, self made mining shaft, where his daily risks his life in search of white gold, near Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Rest and Dread
  • Raging Storm Clouds of Time (B&W): A wind storm thrusts clouds aggressively across the sky, passing a once vibrant general store without notice and relegating it to a meaningless, forgotten history, Eureka Nevada, USA.
    Raging Storm Clouds of Time (B&W)
  • Manual Mining: Men manually mine a muddy hillside for White Gold, near to Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Manual Mining
  • Digging a Hole: Promises of white gold compels this miner to daily risk his life digging dangerous, unsupported shafts, often to a depth of 8 meters with no safety precautions, near Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Digging a Hole
  • Digging a Hole, (B&W): Promises of white gold compels this miner to dig dangerous, vertical, unsupported shafts, often to a depth of 8 meters with only a hammer and a piece of rebar, near Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.<br />
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Poor men with no alternative opportunities of employment become miners and risk their lives daily, as they exhibit little skill and no safety precautions. The threat of danger was confirmed in this same hill side when two weeks prior a similar shaft collapsed and two lives were lost.
    Digging a Hole, (B&W)
  • Desperation: A homeless man sits in amongst his few processions;  enveloped in the gloom of despair, to be utterly alone- in a deserted room,  Central Park, New York, New York USA.
    Desperation
  • Men mine a muddy hillside by the most basic of means for White Gold, near to Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Modern Mining
  • Narasinga: During the parade for Nyepi ("Day of Silence" - hide from evil spirits), the Red Narasinga, a Hindu Ogohs Ogohs , or, demon and a  great devotee of Shiva, hoists a sword on high as he disembowels a man laid out on his knee, Balian Beach,  Bali Indonesia.
    Narasinga
  • Three Times Lucky (B&W&C):  Crouched over in a back alley, an anonymous young man leans intently towards his extended right arm, having a line of bleeding attempts; he injects yet again, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Three Times Lucky (B&W&C)
  • Raging Storm Clouds of Time (B&W&C):  A wind storm thrusts clouds aggressively across the sky, passing a once vibrant general store without notice and relegating it to a meaningless, forgotten history, Eureka Nevada, USA.
    Raging Storm Clouds of Time