白沙屯2023
I was hoping the pandemic would not be affecting the Baishatun pilgrimage this year, but I was wrong. I had anticipated being allowed into the temple behind the waiting palanquin on the night of its departure, but again the inner hall was closed to the public. The “deal” is this: the night of departure is […]
idky
The Ricoh GXR system with the Leica A12 module was the first digital camera I ever bought, and I bought it reluctantly. It was not a good seller, and the company discontinued it pretty quickly. I told myself I would not enter a cycle of upgrading and buying new digital cameras, and would wait a […]
Staying negative
Covid, what metamorphoses you bring; but you have ended this for me. When I started taking photos, I used to say I was collecting negatives; there was no plan. Now I look back through the boxes of negs, I don’t see a life measured in pictures, I see an insatiable, pointless brick of a thing. […]
松山靈隱寺羅漢
Lining the stairs leading to the Songshan Ling Yin Si on Xiangshan in western Taipei are a set of idiosyncratic — and to my mind beautifully conceived — depictions of luohan/arhats 羅漢. Walking in the opposite direction to the intended approach, we reached these before we met the algal-camouflaged lion at the entrance, and I […]
松山靈隱寺綠色獅子
One of the temple lions at the entrance to Songshan Ling Yin Si Temple 松山靈隱寺 on Xiangshan 象山 in western Taipei attracted my attention because of how the green algal growth almost camouflaged it against the backdrop of the foliage, and yet at the same time gave it an ethereal glow that set it apart […]
ldfn
One aesthetic I really love is colorized glass negative prints from late 19th/ early 20th Century Asia. Fooling around with various filters and layers gave this effect. I quite like it.
東港
On Oct. 28, over 200 troupes — including zhentou battle arrays and palanquins representing temples from all over Taiwan — descended upon Donggang Township in Pingtung County. They had come to participate in a ceremony to “invite the Wangye Royal Lords” down to Earth to bless the local area and rid it of disease, bad […]
t-shirt
I went to Donggang and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
fair
These photos are a year old. They were taken during the Baishatun Matsu pilgrimage of 2016, on the first and last days. The photos I originally chose from these sets were selected to support a report we did on the pilgrimage, and so these were ignored. Looking back on them a year later offers that […]