A City by the Sea, 2005

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Shanghai is a real City: it engulfs and amazes from all directions. With building size, Victorian architecture and the countering cosmic forms of the business center across the street. In Shanghai, which translates as “on-above the sea,” there are, according to different estimates, 16 to 20 million people, the density is, on average, is over 2000 per square kilometer. Managers in extremely expensive suits, vendors of fakes, freaks and beggars who ask for charity all bustle back and forth, above the crowd tower fat American tourists. In the center, where several streets are closed to drivers, people mostly speak English, unlike in China. To sit in an Internet cafe, you must show your passport, they are afraid of the white threat, yep. Only two blocks away from a magnificent flower park with mirror buildings across the street, ground rhinoceros horns and deer hooves are sold from a rag that is spread out on the roadway, and the vendor rather aggressively suggests walking past with photo cameras. This is China: the country of contrasts.

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Fashion and Design School in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2008

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Near the most expensive cinema in town, a place where you can meet youngsters showing off their cell phones, I noticed an obscure sign.  It reads “International Education Center School of Art & Fashion (IECSAF)”.

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Back to reality

People ask me ‘how did you get these colors and contrast? Was it really like you show it on a picture?’ I tell you what. There is no ‘real’ picture. Your brain always post-process what eyes see. In your mind you won’t get picture with white sky and black ground. Because from the very beginning of your life you know that sky is overbrighted and your brain got used to fix the balance. But you’re camera as fair as machine from the Matrix. Camera gets a raw results. Using photoshop you make your photos look real. In fact only you know ‘how it was’, so you can lie, lie and lie again. Just to make people feel what you want them to feel when they look at your pictures.

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What I’ve done on that: Shadows & Highlights. Dog was almost completely re-drawn. Same with a hills on the background. I’ve added flares and change tone of the sky using Adjustment layers. I’ve also have made sand look plain with a Clone Tool. And so on…

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Cheers.