A Journey through Chinatown
By Dyske April 29th, 2009
While searching for “Doyers Street” to buy fresh Zong (as recommended by my friend Frank Luo), I came across this website called “A Journey through Chinatown”. The photos on this site are beautiful, and I’m happy to see someone documenting things that most of us see every day but don’t really see because we are too busy thinking about the past or the future.
I’ve been doing something similar in the East Village where I have been living since 1990. I’ve been taking photos of cafes, restaurants, and bars since around 1996. My photos are just snapshots, and they don’t look good. Now that I see this site by RK Chin, I wish I had put more effort in taking better photos.
This is the beauty of living in New York City; we don’t have to travel far to experience different cultures. This is why I don’t see the point of traveling to foreign countries. There is so much we can learn in our own back yard. Why bother flying for hours?
Ethan Wolvek says:
April 29th, 2009 at 11:01 amDaiske…
I live in a place that is so alien to me (but not to most of middle America) that I often feel that I should be snapping pictures all day. I would do it if it weren’t for the fact that the paranoid cowboys that live here would either think I was trying to steal their souls with my camera or imagine that I was casing Santa Clarita for some terrorist attack.
You know there’s a problem with the place where you live when YOU are the only cultural diversity.
We need to move.