JAMIE HO

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Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

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Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

Goat Town, 2012

Goat Town investigates the vast and consuming alterations being made to Guangzhou’s landscape using the backdrop of my family’s own transition. Desperate to elevate itself from Hong Kong’s shadow, the culturally rich, yet poor port city is giving way to generic high rises and constant construction. My mother was born in Guangzhou but escaped to Hong Kong leaving behind one of her brothers. Life then was difficult; even towels were cherished and hard to find.

Now, my uncle’s family is in the transition of leaving an old era. Behind them is their tiny, crowded apartment complex with only narrow, cracked stairs to go between floors. Before them is a sleek, uncluttered high rise. Despite arriving at luxury, they abandon not just collections of archaic artifacts, but a rich history at the threshold of erasure.

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"Photography is boring… always has been, is now, and always will be. The enabling factor of digital imagery and the mass production and availability of images for our insatiable consumption has temporarily allowed us to believe that photography is exciting. Exciting like Television and Video. Sorry, It isn’t. Photography requires us to slow down and look for subtle nuance. The internet, like television, does not encourage or allow for nuance. Everything is built for speed and impulse. Instant satisfaction and rapid eye movement. The false reality of our times. When people spend the greatest part of their lives living on the internet, the internet becomes the greatest part of people’s lives.(1) We naturally want to include photography in our internet lives, however disappointing that relationship may be. We very quickly get the sickening and disheartening feeling that we have seen all there is to see."

PHOTO/arts Magazine: Embracing Banality (via photographsonthebrain)

Just some thoughts….

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A Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images

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boring life rant

Laurisa Galvan’s South Central Dallas!

South Central Dallas

Laurisa Galvan’s South Central Dallas!

photographsonthebrain:

Nora Herting

(via An Artist Goes Undercover at a JC Penney Portrait Studio)

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portrait studio

photographsonthebrain:

Nora Herting
(via An Artist Goes Undercover at a JC Penney Portrait Studio)

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