[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

[Geoff Hopkinson]

Interesting. For what its worth I was recently in Hong Kong for just a few
days and then about a week in Beijing. In Hong Kong some happy young
students practised some excellent English and asked me to be photographed
with them. Possibly like people standing with King Kong or something.

Around Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, we were happy to have our
photos taken with some lovely senior ladies who approached us with happy
smiles and wanted souvenirs I guess with the funny looking and very much
taller Australians.


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman

On 29 October 2014 04:59, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:

> Hi folks, I understand that some of you have good luck photographing
> Chinese in HK and China. China IS HUGE, so there are bound to be more
> varied reactions, and certainly with the cellphones, lots of people take
> their own selfies. However, I will like to raise a few points, NONE OF THEM
> SHOULD STOP you from continuing to do what you are doing before: Chinese
> are particularly sensitive if you take them in situations where they are in
> less than stellar situations. For example, Jayanand's trying to take
> playing mah joh is one of them. That would be showing them as gambling - a
> vice, even if they do engage in the activities every chance they get and
> there is nothing illegal per se. Showing people loitering around when they
> should be working (i.e. if they are in some kind of uniforms) is another.
> Another big non-no is inside temples. Between 2007 and 2014, the HK temples
> already changed their policies quite a lot (because of cell phones?) and
> it's now mostly "it's OK to photograph 'things' just not people."
>
> Finally, there may be very subtle body languages that tell you they really
> hate what you are doing, but that signals might be lost to non-Chinese.
>
> Again, keep on photographing, because I will do the same myself, but just
> trying to give some info.
>
>
>
> --
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