I believe the very last of my Macau photographs are now on this blog, some thirteen months after our very short trip. Truth be told I really like the pace at which I post, going through the photographs time and again allows me to relive the things I see and do. Film is a medium that is not time-sensitive – not to me anyway – and I appreciate having the leisure to sort through, arrange and put together my memories into this electronic space.
Ferrania Solaris 100 (expired), Pentax K1000
The story of the JingMei Human Rights Memorial and Cultural Park (景美人權文化園區) is a bitter one to tell – we would have to pick at wounds that are long and deep, collected over the years of our progress into democracy. We spent a solemn afternoon in the museum grounds, trying to get a better grasp of those dark times than our history textbooks will ever tell us.
Solution VX 200 (expired), Canon FTb
Perutz Primera 400 (expired), Canon FTb
Ferrania Solaris 100 (expired), Olympus Mju II
On this particular day, we rode on our scooter for about an hour and a half to go to a cafe along the north coast but for some reason it wasn’t opened for business and no one picked up the phone. Dismayed, we decided we would try to walk to to beach (because a beach would definitely save the day) but we found this spectacular patch of algal reefs instead. Some locals were picking the sea weeds; we spoke to an old lady who said she was going to make snacks out of them.
Ferrania Solaris 100 (expired film), Pentax K1000
Ferrania Solaris 100 (expired), Pentax K1000
Ferrania Solaris 100 (expired), Olympus Mju II