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Coal miners waiting for their shift to begin, Datong, China. When I walked off the road into this coalmine in Northern China I started shooting immediately as I saw the miners gathered beneath a propaganda mural. It wasn't long before I was told by the powers in charge to leave the premises even though the miners liked being photographed. "They belong to the mine", the supervisor told me.
I first arrived in Asia in 1986 on a one-way ticket, a little money in my pocket and a desire for adventure to spur me on. 35 years later, I’m still here.
Fuelled by a healthy dose of curiosity I traversed the continent for decades, documenting my encounters on film and memory cards, leaving behind a record of printed material: magazine articles, postcards, calendars and books.
The collection I present here draws from all those stories I reported and roads I traveled and centers around four words that, for me, collectively describe the essence of life in Asia. Work, Play, Eat & Pray.
These four verbs, in their glorious and abundant variety, saturate all aspects of life in Asia; the necessary, the joyful, the nourishing and the solemn. Time and again they draw me back to the road and the desire to document life with all its vicissitudes, and by doing so hopefully bring me and the viewers closer to the understanding of what it is to be human.
Live a Life of Wonder!
Hans Kemp.
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Coal miners waiting for their shift to begin, Datong, China. When I walked off the road into this coalmine in Northern China I started shooting immediately as I saw the miners gathered beneath a propaganda mural. It wasn't long before I was told by the powers in charge to leave the premises even though the miners liked being photographed. "They belong to the mine", the supervisor told me.
I first arrived in Asia in 1986 on a one-way ticket, a little money in my pocket and a desire for adventure to spur me on. 35 years later, I’m still here.
Fuelled by a healthy dose of curiosity I traversed the continent for decades, documenting my encounters on film and memory cards, leaving behind a record of printed material: magazine articles, postcards, calendars and books.
The collection I present here draws from all those stories I reported and roads I traveled and centers around four words that, for me, collectively describe the essence of life in Asia. Work, Play, Eat & Pray.
These four verbs, in their glorious and abundant variety, saturate all aspects of life in Asia; the necessary, the joyful, the nourishing and the solemn. Time and again they draw me back to the road and the desire to document life with all its vicissitudes, and by doing so hopefully bring me and the viewers closer to the understanding of what it is to be human.
Live a Life of Wonder!
Hans Kemp.
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