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Chinese New Year Treats, Chinatown, Yangon, Myanmar, 2005

Much of a marketplace is devoted to food. What makes this food particularly expressive is its presentation. It is food fit for a celebration, filling fancy bowls and topped by sticks of burning incense. To give the food context, I placed a very pleased but reserved vendor right behind it, in soft focus. He looks right at us, as if to say, “enjoy.” A study of the detail even shows the lighter he used to start all that incense burning.

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Phil Douglis27-Apr-2005 20:32
Thanks, Jen, as always, for pointing out the human values I've tried to express with this image. You must be affluent to afford these delights, you are satisfied when you can, and it is generous to feed others in the process. All of that was in my mind as I shot this. You bring a Chinese viewer's context to this picture, and your use of "warm," "happy," "respect" is very appropriate. It's all here.
Jennifer Zhou27-Apr-2005 10:04
I like the warm feeling in the picture. The New Year, happy time, Chinese people never forget to pay the respect to their Gods or deceased family. Big bowls full of fancy food, this picture is about affluence, satisfaction and generosity.
Phil Douglis01-Mar-2005 02:29
It was that expression that drew me as well. I partially abstract him with soft focus to make him even more gracious, as well as stressing the incongruously decorated food he is selling.
monique jansen28-Feb-2005 14:12
Love the expression on this guy's face - he does seem to invite the viewer to his table.
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