tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51830344686196591542024-03-13T14:13:15.068-07:00Tom Greenwood PhotographyA collection of news, photos and thoughts from Tom Greenwood, Sydney-based editorial and portrait photographer.Tom Greenwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655661416930561995noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183034468619659154.post-39773147909394176642011-02-28T03:09:00.000-08:002011-02-28T03:09:54.740-08:00Out with the old...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Truth be told, I've always been a bit slack with this blog. But now I have a shiny new one:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Isaan is largely rural, relatively poor and predominantly ethnic Lao. It made an interesting comparison with Bangkok, where I spent most of my time previously.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">One theme I am always keen to explore is the degree to which <i>khatoey</i> are accepted by their families, neighbours, school mates and work colleagues. In urban, middle class Thailand the growing acceptance over recent decades seems to be linked to the ability of <i>khatoey</i> in general (through hormones, surgery, cosmetics and their wardrobes) to physically resemble women. Beauty is highly prized (<i>khatoey</i> are commonly talked of as more beautiful than women) and often considered an indicator of virtue.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In rural Isaan, it is rather different. Few <i>khatoey</i> have the time, money or inclination to beautify themselves to the extent of their urban sisters. Yet most of the people I spoke to said that they suffered no social stigma. Families, especially mothers, aunts and grannies who do most of the child-rearing, seem to reach an acceptance of their sons as <i>khatoey</i> at an earlier age than elsewhere in Thailand. One mother told me: “I have five sons. I always wanted a daughter so when Poy [her youngest] turned out to be <i>khatoey</i>, I was happy.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On this trip I met <i>khatoey </i>school teachers (as well as a small army of school boys), older <i>khatoey</i> who are married with children, and I heard of policemen, soldiers and village chiefs. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Why Isaan should be so <i>khatoey</i>-friendly is interesting to speculate. I am no anthropologist - and I am aware that there is rarely one simple reason for the way people behave - but I suspect it may have something to do with the region’s relative poverty and how that affects gender roles. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Due to poor soils and a lack of irrigation, much of Isaan has only one rice harvest a year. This means that men in particular are often under-employed. Many have to search for labouring work in the cities between harvests. As in many places where work is hard to come by, men in Isaan have a reputation as less than ideal husbands and fathers, with hard-drinking and domestic violence cited as common ills. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">By comparison <i>khatoey </i>come out looking rather good. In taking on a female or ‘daughter’ role they tend to put family first, be it as carers or domestic help. What’s more, many <i>khatoey</i> are willing to take on both ‘male’ and ‘female’ work if required. In lean times this flexibility can be an asset to a family.</span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
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Actually, yes, I probably would -- if I didn't have one already (although sadly it's not an Audi).<br />
Most of my portrait work these days tends to be of the family variety, so it's nice to get a spot of corporate work. My good friend <a href="http://www.samtinsonphotography.com/">Sam Tinson</a> steered me to Audi who were looking for shots of two of their sales staff, Ari and Daniel for a feature in Jewish News. The fellas turned on the charm and the shoot was quick and smooth, rather like an Audi I'd imagine.<br />
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This morning I had a taste of <i>Pii Mai</i><i>,</i> or Lao New Year, festivities. Nothing novel there, given that I recently spent five years in that country. Except that this time it was in Sydney -- <a href="http://www.watphrayortkeo.com/">Phrayortkeo temple</a>, near Cabramatta, to be precise. I'd long been curious to check out the small but proud Lao community here. And on the basis of a few hours of <i>tak bat</i> (alms giving to monks) and some excellent spring rolls, sticky rice and <i>laab,</i> I'd say it was, well, very like being in Laos.<br />
One notable exception was the white plastic laundry baskets that were carried in the wake of the monks. On receiving alms -- mainly packaged food and drink snacks -- on their silver trays, each monk would turn and tip the offerings in the baskets. It didn't exactly add to the magic but then Lao Buddhist practice is nothing if not pragmatic. It is also a lot of fun. Once <i>tak bat</i> was complete a senior monk did the rounds merrily sprinkling the crowds of lay people with water.<br />
I'd be curious to see what goes on outside the temple. Lao itself is a nation of party animals and Pii Mai is the biggest and wildest of them all. Cross-dressing, ice-cold water throwing, drinking games that take you from sober to staggering in roughly 10 minutes, sound systems with internal-organ-rupturing output, dirty dancing... and a great deal of traffic carnage. Australia is an rule-bound, nannyish land but no doubt some of that same mischief is being played out in those distant suburbs as I write. <br />
If you're interested there are some Laos <a href="http://www.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto/gallery/Laos/G0000Nc7qvfH8D3U/">party pics</a> here.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Last weekend I flew up to Brisbane to photograph Paul and Enya's wedding. Paul is an old friend from Laos and Enya, perhaps the bubbliest person you could hope to meet, is from Shanghai (although given her Aussie twang you could be fooled into thinking she was born-and-bred). </div><div style="text-align: left;">The weekend had a distinctly Chinese flavour with a lion dance, complete with deafening firecrackers, at the couple's house-warming the night before the wedding. The day itself was a dream to photograph: some lovely - if challenging - light, a beautiful location in Brisbane's New Farm Park and Powerhouse, and a suitably joyful couple. Enya's outfit was stunning, topped off with eye-lashes that looked like they might become airborne at any moment.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Dykes on bikes, bears, Osama putting the ‘fun’ back into fundamentalism, a vast army of gay surf life-savers... all par for the course at Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.<br />
This was my first gay Mardi Gras. Clearly it once had a little more edge, but with the battles largely won - especially in gay-friendly Sydney - the focus is more on good clean camping it up rather than administering hardcore political spankings. Indeed, the police, armed forces, church leaders and the government of New South Wales each had floats. At times it seemed more of a celebration of ‘the establishment’ than of a once-frowned upon minority. The Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, a well-known supporter of gay rights, promoted herself with gusto from the back of a soft-top.<br />
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In hindsight I should have got myself a press pass. This wouldn’t have been difficult by the number of point and shoot-operating photogs weaving their way through the parade. As it was, I was squeezed against a barrier, snapping what came my way. I used the opportunity to test out the <a href="http://www.canon.com.au/en-AU/Pro-Photography/Camera-Lenses/Pro-Lenses/EF%2035mm%20f1_4L%20USM">Canon 35mm f1.4 lens</a>. Given the crowds I didn’t want to carry a huge kit and in order to capture the ambience I avoided flash. The section of street I was on was murky and I was very glad of the super-wide aperture, although at times I missed the zoom. See more pics <a href="http://www.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto/gallery/Sydney-Mardi-Gras-2010/G00004JY0afN5nw4">here</a>.Tom Greenwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655661416930561995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183034468619659154.post-79990170345615381052010-01-09T21:32:00.000-08:002010-02-04T13:53:45.184-08:00Timor L'Este with OxfamA little over a month ago I travelled to East Timor with a team from Oxfam Australia to document its projects there, my third visit in as many years. I absolutely love Timor - both East and West. It is dazzlingly beautiful and manages to cram arid hillsides, lush forest and alpine peaks between two pristine coastlines. While life there continues to be tough - most communities are completely cut off from roads, markets and services during the months of the rainy season - people are nothing if not resilient.<br /><br />Here is a selection of shots taken for Oxfam:<br /><br />http://www.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto/gallery/Oxfam-in-East-Timor/G0000QFZfAQ5xg5A<br /><br /><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#AAAAAA" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.photoshelter.com/swf/CSlideShow.swf?sv=20090929&feedSRC=http%3A//www.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto/gallery/Oxfam-in-East-Timor/G0000QFZfAQ5xg5A%3Ffeed%3Drss%26ppg%3D200&target=_self&f_l=t&f_fscr=t&f_tb=t&f_bb=t&f_bbl=f&f_fss=f&f_2up=t&f_crp=t&f_wm=t&f_s2f=t&f_emb=t&f_cap=t&f_sln=t&ldest=c&imgT=casc&cred=iptc&trans=xfade" /><embed src="http://www.photoshelter.com/swf/CSlideShow.swf?t=1265320359467&feedSRC=http%3A//www.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto/gallery/Oxfam-in-East-Timor/G0000QFZfAQ5xg5A%3Ffeed%3Drss%26ppg%3D200&target=_self&f_l=t&f_fscr=t&f_tb=t&f_bb=t&f_bbl=f&f_fss=f&f_2up=t&f_crp=t&f_wm=t&f_s2f=t&f_emb=t&f_cap=t&f_sln=t&ldest=c&imgT=casc&cred=iptc&trans=xfade" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300" bgcolor="#AAAAAA" wmode="opaque"></embed></object><br><a href="http://www.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto/gallery/Oxfam-in-East-Timor/G0000QFZfAQ5xg5A">Oxfam in East Timor</a> - Images by <a href="http://www.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto">Tom Greenwood</a>Tom Greenwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655661416930561995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5183034468619659154.post-69935523400735539912009-07-05T17:59:00.000-07:002009-07-07T03:49:01.437-07:00A new antipodean dawn<object width="425" height="319"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://pa.photoshelter.com/swf/Slideshow.swf?feedSRC=http%3A//pa.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto/gallery/G0000Jq40XcyBe2Y%3Ffeed%3Drss%26ppg%3D200" /><embed src="http://pa.photoshelter.com/swf/Slideshow.swf?feedSRC=http%3A//pa.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto/gallery/G0000Jq40XcyBe2Y%3Ffeed%3Drss%26ppg%3D200" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="319"></embed></object><br><a href="http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto/gallery/G0000Jq40XcyBe2Y">*</a> - Images by <a href="http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/tomgreenwoodphoto">Tom Greenwood</a><br /><br /><p>Hallo. Is anybody there? This is my first post of my first blog. And what better way to begin than with a healthy dollop of self-promotion? So here is a link to my <a href="http://www.tom-greenwood.com/">new website</a>, which in turn trumpets my launch as a Sydney-based photographer. So it's all very exciting. If you look at the site you may notice that not many images feature Sydney or Australia. In fact, not a single one. But that is about to change. Bring on the lucky country!</p>Tom Greenwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655661416930561995noreply@blogger.com0