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Global trekking
A Photojournalist’s Dream
There’s a bit of a bug going around So Cal at the moment, and I caught it. I was pretty much incapacitated for the weekend, but I would have felt bad if it had been a complete waste of time, so I caught up on some old photos. Long time readers probably remember that, about a year ago, I went to India and Hong Kong. Plenty of India stories went up, along with plenty of promises for Hong Kong stories. Well, I managed to deliver on the first half of that. Here, finally, is the second half. Hopefully you’ll find it was worth the wait. If not, leave a complaint, and I will sincerely apologise.
I’m going to start out with a few photos plus a story here, and then, in a few days (promise!), a slideshow.
Sweet globalisation
It usually comes as a surprise to people that half my family is Argentinian, probably owing to me looking as Irish as Guinness, but yes, I’ve got a Latin half, and that’s who I visited on this trip. A few years ago when the Argentinian banks went crazy, my aunt and cousins decided it was time to get out of Buenos Aires and move to Europe, and it wound up that after a series of moves, my aunt and two of her children are now in London.
This side of my family is definitely the artistic side. My cousin, Marina, is an art dealer. My aunt works in theatre; directing, acting, and writing. Then there’s my cousin Alejo: I hadn’t seen him in 15 years or so, and in the intervening time he’s become a world travelling tattoo artist. Marina was out of the country at the time, visiting India, but she graciously allowed Cherise and I to use her flat while she was gone.
I’m off again, but first thing’s first
I went to Hong Kong a while back, but never got around to posting any photos. It isn’t that I didn’t have time; rather, I’ve just been saving it for this website. As luck would have it though, I’m travelling again, off to London with Cherise in about, oh, six hours. I’ll leave you all with a preview of what’s to come.
My time in Hong Kong was fairly brief, and almost an afterthought. Coming back from India, I had a stop in Hong Kong. Since this trip was my first Asian journey, I realised I should make the most of it, and extended my stop in Hong Kong by about three days. Shooting in Hong Kong was world’s different from shooting in India, but that’s a story to come when I get back in a week and a half.
