Words and Pictures

Just think about it. No lines, you can get your umbrella fixed while the dentist works on you. There are just so many conveniences about seeing a street dentist in Chongqing. Here a woman gets fitted for upper dentures. Frankly, I’ll pass.

Only the shadow knows what this man is really up to. Actually, the photographer does too. I was taking pictures of industrial development in the coastal city of Dalian, China and had walked out onto a long cement wharf where I saw this man fishing beside a container. He bent over to check his line [...]

Do you ever wake up in the morning and feel like it is going to be a bad-hair day? Just can’t do a thing with it? That appears to be the case with this ferocious lion-figure in the emperor’s garden area of the Forbidden City.

When I am out on the street taking pictures, I always look for moments where people interact with their surroundings. It can take a lot of time and vigilance to capture these kind of moments, but when it comes together it is really quite fun.
In this scene two street cleaners in Shanghai had stopped for [...]