I looked through the first edit materials from these last 5 years of “Wok the Dog” and some 3-4 edit from the first 5 years I was shooting the markets this morning.
Don like to say that once you been to 10 Asian markets you have been to them all. In all fairness to him, it really does seem the same after a while, especially when its not a project that you are invested in. Every now and then even I wonder to myself if I have had enough. If meat is meat, carcass is carcass and a fish being hit over the head is just that.
Yet as I looked through the archive this morning, many of the images really made me laugh out loud. They are pretty fucking incredible. Looking at them by city and by country, you really see a difference in each of the markets, the quality of light and a different type of life each markets have. Seeing the whole body of work through such expand in time and countries, I am again very excited about more – more countries, more markets, more carcasses!!!
I chose this image for the posting today because even though this image made it through the first edit, it did not make it through the second. Its a bit of “touristy” shot – but there is this moment with the little girl holding her mom’s hand that makes all the difference in the world. Its a real moment of her wanting something, needing something, in amidst of these women being very aware of me and my presence. It made it real, more real than a stock image, a snap shot from a tourist and anything that Lonely Planet uses to lure me back on the plane with passport in hand.