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Strangers Nos. 38, 39 and 40
Dan, David and Paul were spotted walking by the restaurant where we were having lunch in Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown. Â Dan is American, and David and Paul are Scots. Â I ran after them and explained this project, and they all stiffened up for the photo. Â As I was trying to get the manual focus and exposure
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Strangers Nos. 36 and 37
You always see mothers and babies, but I think there can be something especially poignant about fathers and babies. Â I passed Saiful (father) and Ain (baby) in a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, and was struck how they were in their own world, enjoying each others’ company without regard to what was going on
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Stranger No. 35
Salabuddin (sp?) was conducting a transaction in his clothing shop with a customer when I walked by and snapped a few shots without asking. One of his colleagues, perhaps his son, nudged him and said smilingly that I was snapping photos. So at this point I decided to make it official and ask him to
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Stranger No. 34
I ran into Zadar on Christmas day, during an impromptu photowalk to the one of the most crowded shopping districts in India – T. Nagar – on one of the busiest shopping days. Zadar was selling some sort of sweet fuzzy stuff in plastic bags, which resembles cotton candy in taste, but looked rather like
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Stranger No. 33
“Stranger No. 33” provided the most hilarious experience in this project to date. Â We were walking past a series of small shops, when I spotted this young man quietly reading a paper in front of a small book shop. Â I stopped for a moment and looked back at him, and nervously asked if he’d