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The small village of Basha, tucked away in the mountains of south-east Guizhou, is a fantastic place to get a taste of ethnic Miao culture. With the main street through town straddling a mountain ridge the village flows down either side. Many women continue to wear traditional clothing, with males carrying on the ancient practice [...]
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There is nothing I love more as a traveller than hanging out at markets. Always a hive of activity they are a place where you will find real life – real people doing real things! Nowadays, people often talk about how the number of shots they take with a digital camera has increased substantially compared [...]
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I love all the excitement that comes with a lion dance. Hearing that familiar pounding drum and the clashing of the cymbals is enough to get the adrenaline flowing. In Guangzhou recently I was lucky enough to come across a lion dance out the front of a temple and even luckier to get a front [...]
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Hailing from Southern Vietnam the Cai Dai religion is a feast of colourful kitsch. Its saints include Sun Yat-sen, Victor Hugo and Vietnamese Poet, Nguyen Binh Khiem, while its beliefs and teachings seem to be a bit of a mish-mash of Buddhism, Catholicism and Taoism – the vibrant robes of red, yellow and blue are [...]
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As I am unfortunately not in China for this year’s holiday I thought I should drag a selection of last year’s shots out of the archive. While often you see dragon boats racing up and down in straight lines, similar to a rowing regatta which is all very orderly and organised, the event I attended [...]
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This gorgeous little Flower Hmong girl from Northern Vietnam just has the most amazing and emotive facial expression in this shot! We were wandering about the area near Bac Ha one afternoon some 11 years ago, the golden light was bathing the countryside making for simply incredible views. To add to the already very photogenic [...]