December 27, 2008
Taipei, Taiwan
Its not often that when one engages in work that involves travel and also somewhat Documentry in nature that we get to return to where we have been. Most certainly, we would never be able to find that same shot again. That is the nature of things.
Yet, as I am here in taipei, I have returned to some of the markets I have photographed in previous years. I am mostly doing it as an excrise. After all, how many shots of markets of taipei do I really need to prove my thesis? Its time for new territory, new land, new countries.
With all that being said, I still thought that it would be a worth while excrise. If nothing else, just to go through the motion, just to see how a familiar place gets rendered.
As I have not seen the film from these last two days of shooting there is no results to be reported on yet. But what I can tell you is about my experience this morning at the fish market- I was disturbed.
I have photographed this particular market befor and I was always quiet fine. Something about the smell, blood, and sheer volume of the dead living things that were present today there got to me. Usually the crowd and mayhem of the market gives me an adriline rush, not so today. Yet once I walked out of the fish section into the meat and poultry section I was fine, as if it was any other day.
I don't get it. What is it about the fish market that got to me today? Any suggestion?
Charlie Grosso
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