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Enjoying the Lantern Festival together
Updated: 2015-03-10 10:38
I'm an amateur autodidactic photographer. What I’ve wanted to capture since my early pictures is everyday life, and what I try to express in them are the small pleasures, the details we invent to endure the routine or try to discover or underscore the details we are embedded in. Maybe a color, maybe a cup, maybe the disposition of the fruit in the market, maybe the neon lights or natural lights, maybe a bicycle, maybe a reflection.
In these photos I wanted to express something that I never had seen before until I came to China, since in Mexico we don't celebrate Chinese New Year. It is an interesting period for pictures. Although the cities are empty, there are some days during the festivities, such as the Lantern Festival, that are special occasions for taking the camera and trying to capture the beauty of these giant lanterns. These photos express how families go to the squares and enjoy the night walking under the bright light of the moon and the lanterns, and solving riddles.
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[Photo/Vladimir Totolhua] |
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