Back to reality and my project!!!
I havent posted for the last few days as things have sure been busy since I returned from Dandong. On Monday I started a few portraits and general pics of fat kids, but it was not easy to find kids as it was a school day! So plans were laid to return to Xinghai Square on Wednesday to take portraits.......
Then came the news that we are not sure if ANY of the 8 kids I will teach over next weekend are fat, I had an initial panic but then we discussed that if they aren't we will ask them to invite their friends who are to the lessons.....It felt like I was on an emotional rollercoaster............Hopefully it will go well, I now see the first kids Friday and then more on Sunday, and we are going to some schools in Heishi Jao on Friday just in case to set up some more lessons there next week if we can. Some of the older kids will use their own digital cameras and so I am a bit more confident that I will get lots of photos!!!
I spoke to one bright spark who found my phone number on the internet, he is in middle school and has never used a camera but he sounds really keen. We were confused as to how he called me but then Wang Meng realised who it was and found out how he got my number!
Then came the search for more info on the net, I have searched (updated term 2 ones) newpapers and articles online, then started to find more photos from all the main agencies, WPN, Getty, Panos etc. I looked up some of the main artists who look like they have done a story and not just one off news photos, and am still ploughing through the major newspapers again as there has been a lot written recently.
I also wanted to buy a background for my street portraits..........I decided on plain white, then went on the search yesterday when me and Wang Meng went to visit the University of Light Industry. We discovered that they ran a photograhy program, and so we asked there where we could find a good background.....they came up with 2 shops, the first did not have anything so reluctantly I went to 27 square which is always a nightmare! I got lost as usual but managed to find some material - one lot I have wrapped around a long tube like a real background in a studio, and then the other is a large piece of polar fleece which may work as it does not crease too easily. I then went to the post grad dorms to try it out, it seemed to work but the lighting was not great.
Then today i went with Wang Meng to Xinghai Square as kids have Wednesday afternoon off.......we thought we might track a few down and so took the backgrounds with us......but NO kids at all, just tourists.....then we jumped into a cab for Olympic Sqaure - so near to all the language schools i thought it was a sure bet........but NO again no kids.....then Wang Meng heard the loudspeaker which was announcing that there was a sports meet in the stadium - surely there would be kids there.....so off we went.............asked one kid but he was shy.....then he asked why and she told him we were looking for fat kids....he then yelled up to his friends 'anyone fat want their photo taken.........." but was still too shy and insisted he was too ugly! The teachers we asked were not very helpful and so we decided to call it a day - the lighting was also pretty bad and it so looked like it would rain.
So today I am feeling very frustrated.............
Then came the news that we are not sure if ANY of the 8 kids I will teach over next weekend are fat, I had an initial panic but then we discussed that if they aren't we will ask them to invite their friends who are to the lessons.....It felt like I was on an emotional rollercoaster............Hopefully it will go well, I now see the first kids Friday and then more on Sunday, and we are going to some schools in Heishi Jao on Friday just in case to set up some more lessons there next week if we can. Some of the older kids will use their own digital cameras and so I am a bit more confident that I will get lots of photos!!!
I spoke to one bright spark who found my phone number on the internet, he is in middle school and has never used a camera but he sounds really keen. We were confused as to how he called me but then Wang Meng realised who it was and found out how he got my number!
Then came the search for more info on the net, I have searched (updated term 2 ones) newpapers and articles online, then started to find more photos from all the main agencies, WPN, Getty, Panos etc. I looked up some of the main artists who look like they have done a story and not just one off news photos, and am still ploughing through the major newspapers again as there has been a lot written recently.
I also wanted to buy a background for my street portraits..........I decided on plain white, then went on the search yesterday when me and Wang Meng went to visit the University of Light Industry. We discovered that they ran a photograhy program, and so we asked there where we could find a good background.....they came up with 2 shops, the first did not have anything so reluctantly I went to 27 square which is always a nightmare! I got lost as usual but managed to find some material - one lot I have wrapped around a long tube like a real background in a studio, and then the other is a large piece of polar fleece which may work as it does not crease too easily. I then went to the post grad dorms to try it out, it seemed to work but the lighting was not great.
Then today i went with Wang Meng to Xinghai Square as kids have Wednesday afternoon off.......we thought we might track a few down and so took the backgrounds with us......but NO kids at all, just tourists.....then we jumped into a cab for Olympic Sqaure - so near to all the language schools i thought it was a sure bet........but NO again no kids.....then Wang Meng heard the loudspeaker which was announcing that there was a sports meet in the stadium - surely there would be kids there.....so off we went.............asked one kid but he was shy.....then he asked why and she told him we were looking for fat kids....he then yelled up to his friends 'anyone fat want their photo taken.........." but was still too shy and insisted he was too ugly! The teachers we asked were not very helpful and so we decided to call it a day - the lighting was also pretty bad and it so looked like it would rain.
So today I am feeling very frustrated.............
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