At work tonight I am thinking about what portrait subjects I want to shoot this coming 5 week trip to Thailand. I want to continue making the Muay Thai boxer portraits, this time with the razzle rangefinder cameras, which will add fluidity to the images (and hopefully better exposures). I also want to work on a new subject, farmers, people working in the fields and around the farm.
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| August Sander's Farmer Sowing |
Thailand's main export is rice, I am not sure where in the planting cycle they are and with the current flooding there might be entire fields under water but I hope I can make portraits of farmers this trip. I shot Waew's farmer father back in 2010 and I need to get back to those type of portraits this trip.
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| August Sander's, Young Farmers on Their Way to a Dance |
Sebastiao Salgado showed the decency, the nobility of manual labour in his book "Workers". I want to make portraits of the Thai farmers in the same light as Salgado did. I need to show the harshness, the difficulties of the farmer life and also their individual beauty and nobility.
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| Salgado's Book "Workers" |
