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Thailand Trip 24/11/07 - 10/12/07 : It is truely the land of the smile.

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It is truely the land of the smile.

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- Sage Jazz Band - : All female Jazz Band. Untermyer Park Sept 4, 2004

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- On the Streets of New York - : Being born and raised in New York you would think at 67 I would be jaded and go about my business. Not me I keep sticking my lens in everyone elses business.

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Kiosque L'evide' - Jean Dubuffet

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Heads Above Sand

Black Karen Elder 3 with Sun Glasses

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Mae Sai elder

Karen Tribe Elephant Village
I went for a 30-minute ride in the basket on the elephants back. The other passenger Anke Lang got to sit on the neck, which is a much smoother ride.

See me? That is my foot in the foreground.

This is not an actual village. I call it a VV, vender village, it was set up with the help of the Thai government so that some of the tribes could show off their costumes and sell craft items to the tourists.

ATM Sleeper

Some eighty years ago the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was bequeathed a painting entitled Young Woman Drawing dating from around 1801. It was attributed to the great Neoclassical French painter Jacque-Louis David. It depicted a lovely young woman, in her mid-20s, sketching in the light from a background window containing a broken pane of glass. The work was typical of David's exquisite handling of light and delicate textures, his composition, sense of space, Classical elegance, and restraint. The critics loved it and congratulated the Met on its great good fortune in having such a masterpiece. However, in the years that followed, complex study of the work by art researchers began to cast doubt on its attribution. Eventually, the artist was found to be Marie-Denise Villers who, inasmuch as she was born in 1774, would have been the right age for the painting to have been a self-portrait. Her steady, open gaze was that of an artist peering into a mirror. As time went on, further studies indicated that there were at least NINE women artists painting around the turn of the century in Paris and much, in some cases ALL, of their work had been attributed to David. To add insult to injury, once the correct attribution had been worked out, critics began to see the Villers portrait in a different light, noticing its weaknesses - the proportions from waist to knee being not quite right and the fact that the artist had placed the woman's technically difficult drawing hand down at her side to avoid having to render it. Actually, the pose is quite pleasant, quite natural, and any anatomical peculiarities could easily be chalked up to the fashionable, high-waisted, Empire style gown she is wearing. Critics aside, in light of its being a self-portrait, we find new meaning in the painting's background, particularly the loving couple, seen through the imperfect, broken glass of the window, as they are hemmed in by a railing and building. Meanwhile, in the foreground we find the young artist, having dedicated her life to her art, in a spacious, open area seeing herself reflected by the perfect glass of a mirror.

Nothing to it.

Nine Lanes of Traffic

Bangkok

Street cleaner ~ Notice the covered face against pollution.

Bangkok

Chiang Saen Leaded Glass Sculpture

Paduang Teenager

Paduang villages in Thailand are bizarre worlds created by Thai tour operators, and the women receive no official support or legal endorsement from the Thai government.
The women themselves take a pragmatic approach to their role in the local tourist industry. Most accept their fate as showcases for the machinery of tourism and quietly sit on their steps while a steady stream of tourists snap photographs--an ethnic minority caught in a web of political intrigue, powerlessness, and economic exploitation. Once the women reach their twenties, the rings can never be removed because the neck muscles will not be able to support their heads.

On the other hand they are refugees and better off, because of their elongated necks, than tens of thousands of other people who have fled Burma where they were persecuted and murdered. Each woman earns a relatively good monthly income of 3,630 baht, about $110. That involves selling handicrafts and the take from entrance fees, 250 baht ($7.50) for each tourist.

Young Paduang Weaver

Man with Beads

The Sunday Paper

The Explanation

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