Jiufen in New Taipei City is a town on a hill, old houses raggedly set into the rise overlooking the sea on the north coast of the island. Space is a priority. In the periphery residential areas, time can seem to have stood still. The basketball court pressing right against old graves climbing a hill, […]
九份
高士神社
The Gaoshi Shrine, and more specifically its Torii gate, was to be the end of the trip. It was also the beginning. Two months prior, we had tried to drive to the shrine but had run out of time. When I planned the bike trip for October, I remembered the image of the landscape through […]
南方澳漁港
2015
No posts for a while, as things have been put on hold by moving and the pandemic. I scanned some old files the other day, taken in temples in 2015. These are a selection of the more interesting ones, some of which I have considered before, some of which I just disregarded. It’s always worth […]
10 years
The best hiking companion ever. 10 years ago, I wrote: “I found Custer one Thursday morning in early April, 2011. Totally emaciated, his muscles seriously deteriorated, he was almost entirely bald save for his head and the ruff of his neck. His exposed skin was covered in mange and open sores, his eyes sunken from […]
love & the new year
From the park at the end of the road it is possible to walk into the hills and go for miles. The entrance, essentially a rise to a river flood buffer zone, is popular with visitors and family day trippers. The local warden head has arranged for installations to be placed here, owls, bears, an […]
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 […]
beard
Johann had a beard and he wore it well. I knew he would cut it off in time, and I had to have it on film. I am increasingly interested in the process of making what I call composite photos, scrutinizing a specific scene and exploring the passage of time and/or shifting perspective through merging […]
miro
When I first arrived in Taipei in 1998, I knew of Wanhua as the place my partner of the time was living with the family she had recently reconnected with, having been adopted and taken to the UK when she was less than one year old. I remember it as an old, poor, rundown, characterful […]
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