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03-SEP-2006

Left behind, Shanghai, China, 2006

Canon EOS 10D
1/125s f/4.0 at 24.0mm iso800 full exif

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Guest		18-Aug-2010 03:28
good job!

sunzi888		05-Sep-2008 16:22
It is indeed an amazing image, but conveys a negative message which neither accurate nor correct, say the least it is biased. Everyone is hypo these days talking about the wonder of changing in China for the last thirty years, especially during and after a successful Beijing Olympics 2008. No mater one likes or not, the current history is build upon the previous one, without the era of chairman Mao, could hardly imagine the progress that made by billions of Chinese people. By simply condemning the past will not change the fact that the past is well existing in the current, and the future to come¡ It is in another form of dwell on the shadow of past. We will be much better off to accept and learn from the past, as well as embrace the current, and anticipate the future¡

Guest		01-Jul-2008 12:50
wonderful image... really miss shooting in the streets of shanghai...keep up the wonderful work,,,

Guest		22-Jan-2007 03:22
I like it!

Ken McColl		17-Nov-2006 05:59
Jennifer, I love this shot..there is just soo much we can read into it. well done KMc

Guest		27-Oct-2006 15:20
funny...the door-knocker alignment is a complelling mask-like element

Guy Dube		16-Oct-2006 03:43
A very impressive picture Jennifer! Vote! Best regards Guy

Phil Douglis		07-Oct-2006 18:37
****Another amazingly incongruous image, with what appears to be a statue of Mao watching from behind an open door as someone leaves the building. I get a feeling of China's past and present in juxtaposition here -- the lurking statue represents the authoritarian past, while the figure walking out that door into the light of day is no longer locked into that past, but can come and go as she pleases. Nobody has yet mentioned the significance of the ropes around Mao's body, either. He is not only in past here, he also seems to be under "house arrest," his era forgotten, and in a sense, condemned.

Guenter Eh		07-Oct-2006 18:18
Interesting - without other contents we see a headless lady and a "legless" statue! ;) He is left behind...the door, but his face seems to show a despise smile about the things he can see nowadays!

A Reid		07-Oct-2006 14:47
Wow! You have a great eye for seeing things many others don't.

Guest		07-Oct-2006 12:50
Great image ! He is just a historical man nowaday.

alibenn		07-Oct-2006 10:34
This is a classy commentary on modern China Jen. Is Mao being left behind, is china finally shedding the stigma and grasping consumerism, or is Mao and his memory still controlling China from the shadows? He's on the money, he's staring from above the Forbidden City, his body still attracts millions...how long until this changes? how long until China rises from the ashes and reveals its true glory? I haven't commented on one of your images in so long, it's so nice to pop back and say hi!! :)

Guest		07-Oct-2006 05:12
People are structuralists by nature now...narratives structure from our ability to discriminate objects and we find pleasure in forming wholes from puzzle-like assemblies of elements...we have evolved this way...we have language and will hopefully develop much more.....facilitators who bring us new technologies and new liberations seem to abound....some some hidden, some more iconized than others....I wonder what you are truly seeing, Jen?

Kal Khogali		07-Oct-2006 03:20
A great image, is an image with a surprise, intelligent, challenging and asking us to look closer. As a thumb, just a pair of legs, but as a full sized image, so rich in message and symbolism...21st century consumerism...that handbag says it all about a disposable society..K

sevres babylone		07-Oct-2006 02:47
Excellent. Almost like he has just opened the door to let her out.

Guest		07-Oct-2006 02:35
lovely!