Category — Photography

Buddhist monks and believers from around the world attend a ceremony marking United Nations Day of Vesak to celebrate Buddha’s birthday in Hanoi, Vietnam, on May 14, 2008.

This is the first time that Vietnam is hosting an international gathering of Buddhist leaders, scholars, and state dignitaries.

Via Activate.us

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Photographer Masaru Goto has an interesting series of portraits up at Global Compassion that show every day Burakumin, an ethnically Japanese group of people descended from the untouchables of the feudal Japanese caste system.

Even today, the Burakumin face discrimination – they live in segregated districts that are often neglected by city governments, and the general public still negatively stereotypes them as poor and backwards.

For example, this is Yoshinobu Nakajima who is a person of freedom:

“I’ve been working really hard until last year. I’m 61 now. Since retirement, I’ve been to Thailand and Okinawa and Hokkaido — by bicycle! And there are so many chances to meet people. It also makes me happy when acquaintances from my travels come to visit me. I guess this is what I can do to let people know about Buraku. For example, we bake bread and pizza in a stone oven together. Having fun with many young people makes me feel young, too. We meet and we reunite and we stay connected. This will be my lifestyle until the day I die.”

Masaru is a highly regarded Japanese photographer known for his compassionate documentary work “highlighting the plight and resilience of ordinary people caught in conflicts, suffering under oppression, or economically disadvantaged.”

See more on GlobalCompassion

Via LostAtEMinor

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I love this photo of a disposed of RV in Japan. Courtesy of Tokyo Times.

Via Tokyo Times

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Lost At E Minor briefly interviewed Chinese photographer Shen Wei about his series Almost Naked and how he gets through those awkward moments of photographing naked people.

Who are your subjects and how do you go about finding them?
‘Most of my subjects are strangers; very few are people I know. I find my subjects through many different methods, such as at social events, through friends, on the Internet, and by approaching them on location’.

Born and raised in Shanghai, China. Shen Wei is a fine art photographer currently based in New York City.

Shen’s photographs have been widely exhibited, including Griffin Museum of Photography, Seattle Center on Contemporary Art, Zone: Chelsea Center for the Arts, Australia Center for Photography, Lincoln Center and Saatchi Gallery at the Zoo Art Fair.

His photographs have been featured in various publications such as American Photo, Chinese Photography, PDN, Vision and La Tempestad.

See more on ShenPhoto.com

Via LostAtEMinor

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New York-based designer, Deanne Cheuk returned recently from a visit to China where she snapped these awesome shots of Beijing.

Would anyone try one of these scorpions?

More photos below…

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I was floored when I saw these photos in the trends section of Lost At E Minor, labelled as FHM China photos by Chen Zhun.

These powerful sci-fi anime China girls on bikes are mad and totally look the part. There’s probably some post-production involved, and seems like there’s a story here, but I forgo all efforts to try and work it out and to describe it any further. Just click through to see more photos below! All hail Chen Zhun!

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A woman dressed as a maiko (apprentice geisha) walks down a street wearing US Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama campaign buttons in Kyoto, Japan, on May 20, 2008.

(She’ll be happy today then..)

Via Activate.us

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Korean photo artist Yeondoo Jung takes children’s crayon drawings and recreates them in the real world.

Jung apparently spent four months in kindergartens in Seoul and collected 1,200 drawings from five to seven year olds. He chose eighteen works of art for the Wonderland project and brought them to life with the help of high school students and fashion designers.

See more examples of the Wonderland project below..

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