My name is Liu Tao.I come from Hefei, China. I work in urban water supply service industry. I’ve been doning street photography here for 10 years.
I’m very obsessed with shuttling around the streets with my camera from day to night.
In the long process, I’m obsessed with every clue of life, like the scarecrow in the field,looking for clues in the reality of repetitive cycle change.
I seldom communicate with photographed object, I want to watch with my own eyes and keep a familiar and far distance with them. I have a wide range of street photography types.It has practical significance and also a flash of inspiration.
With the passage of time, street photography makes me feel the vitality of myself. Once I knew nothing about the world around me, It was like living in my own world forever. Street photography opened a window for me, and the photos of street photography are like a message sent by me and the world. Although there are many problems in life, but when I go to the streets, I forget everything. I’m eager to find more and feel more.
Tag: chinese street photographers
people from China and/or a citizen of china who take photographs from street
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Liu Tao
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Giannis Angelakis
Giannis Angelakis is from Chania. He was born in 1979 and has lived most of his life at Chania. He spent some years in England where he did a degree at Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Wolverhampton (BSc) and studied at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham. From a very young age he works as a journalist and for the past years he is an official “Fuji-X Photographer”. His work is mainly focused on daily life at the island of Crete as well as covering news stories.
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Chania, beyond the tourist fantasy
Crete, in the years of the financial crisis of 2008 became even more depended on the tourism industry. Everything seemed to evolve around tourism because this was the only “industry” that was making money at a time where salaries were collapsing and unemployment was going to the roof. One side effect of this huge dependence of economy from tourism was that life in Chania was somehow reduced to an image that fits the idea of a touristic destination. People in Crete, according to the dominant narrative, are always smiling, dancing, drinking raki and playing music, enjoying the sun and having fun. Positive stereotypes can become negative when seen from another prism and stereotypes of the joyful native can turn into stereotypes about laziness. The constant repetition of similar images of picturesque sunny beaches, glorious sunsets and almost caricaturist portraits of “indigenous people” imprints in the minds of visitors that this is really Crete. It casts a shadow to everything else that doesn’t serve the dominant narrative and forces people to comply and adjust to the collective fantasy that move the wheels of economy. In a global level, people are more and more location independent. Just before the coronavirus epidemic, we lived in a time of constant travel and flexibility. Travel is not anymore a matter of having a vacation but is more and more becoming a matter of status. New technologies and social media created a market for the abundance of material created, which is dominated by images of places that should be in a “bucket list”. This was a reality that the dominant division was between those “independent” and able to travel who could reach a higher level of consciousness which surpassed national or local boundaries towards an identity of a cosmopolitan citizen and the natives, those who are bound to a place, who can’t work from a distance, who belong in communities and depend from them. My effort is to bring back to the surface some of the richness of life that does not fit the dominant narrative of what a travel destination is.
Here, you will find a combination of photos from everyday life in the town of Chania. It is a peculiar mixture of pictures which seem disconnected but I perceive that they somehow capture the complexity of living in a place like Chania from a quite dark perspective. -
Chun Ming Chan
Chun Ming Chan
I born in Hong Kong in 1958, and has been retired from a career in banking since 2014.
My first contact with photography was in 1977.
I have not been very serious on my photography for over 30 years.
I regain my photography interest from 2009 mainly on birds photography but change to photograph people in street from mid 2014 which now known as “Street Photography”.Photography to me is the memory and passion of life.
All matters in our life will be disappeared in a moment, however, I can retain some of my feelings and express my point of view through the lens.
I follow my gut instinct and my feelings to record the people and things in street.
I never ask for permission from the people I took their pictures as it would ruin the natural expression on them.
Sometimes I find a stage with good light and shadow, I would wait the right people walk through my frame.I like street photography as thing happened and people in the street everyday are different and fresh even though in the urban I have been living for over 30 years.
I took all my pictures mainly in Hong Kong.
I like to take pictures in Central District as this area full of new and old buildings, local and foreign people, different vehicles, attractive light and shadows in different period of the year.
A good picture for me no need be artistic or esoteric, however, it should bare with emotion and passion of the photographer.
I believe that a picture without emotion is dead.
My favourite subjects are light, shadows and people with attractive expression and gestures. I considers street photography an activity where I can continue to learn my whole life long.[thb_button_text link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fsnapshotchanchan%2F|title:Chun%20Ming%20Chan%20Instagram|target:%20_blank|”]
