Soul2Soul #24. Friendly Miner.
Edition 1/1
Scanned Positive Film. 1993
3000px X 2000px
Location: Datong, China.
Datong in North West China is a drab coal mining area. I wandered into a mine compound and started shooting, actually amazed I wasn't stopped at the gate. Before long though some security official had found me and ushered me out. "The miners belong to the mine", he said, "you can't photograph them."
I didn't protest, happy that my film wasn't confiscated and knowing that I managed to get a few shots in.
The Soul2Soul Collection consists of 55 intimate portraits taken by photographer Hans Kemp over many decades of travel across Asia.
The Soul2Soul Collection consists of 55 intimate portraits taken over many decades of travel across Asia.
Coming face to face with strangers we are often apprehensive of the other. And yet, in so many ways, differences are made up, our attitude is a conditioned one.
In moments like this the realization that deep down we have more in common than we care to acknowledge at first glance is one of the most profound and delightful realizations one can have.
The other is you and you are the other, it’s just the package that is different. Or as Ram Dass used to say: “Are you in there? I’m in here.”
I have been on the receiving end of countless acts of generosity and hospitality during my decades of travels across Asia. Returning this kindness to the future generation is important so I have decided to donate 20% of all proceeds from primary and secondary sales to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation, an organization I have been involved with for 25 years. www.cncf.org
Soul2Soul #24. Friendly Miner.
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Soul2Soul #24. Friendly Miner.
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Soul2Soul #24. Friendly Miner.
Edition 1/1
Scanned Positive Film. 1993
3000px X 2000px
Location: Datong, China.
Datong in North West China is a drab coal mining area. I wandered into a mine compound and started shooting, actually amazed I wasn't stopped at the gate. Before long though some security official had found me and ushered me out. "The miners belong to the mine", he said, "you can't photograph them."
I didn't protest, happy that my film wasn't confiscated and knowing that I managed to get a few shots in.
The Soul2Soul Collection consists of 55 intimate portraits taken by photographer Hans Kemp over many decades of travel across Asia.
The Soul2Soul Collection consists of 55 intimate portraits taken over many decades of travel across Asia.
Coming face to face with strangers we are often apprehensive of the other. And yet, in so many ways, differences are made up, our attitude is a conditioned one.
In moments like this the realization that deep down we have more in common than we care to acknowledge at first glance is one of the most profound and delightful realizations one can have.
The other is you and you are the other, it’s just the package that is different. Or as Ram Dass used to say: “Are you in there? I’m in here.”
I have been on the receiving end of countless acts of generosity and hospitality during my decades of travels across Asia. Returning this kindness to the future generation is important so I have decided to donate 20% of all proceeds from primary and secondary sales to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation, an organization I have been involved with for 25 years. www.cncf.org