I'm not sure if this is actually the 'best' image I made all year, but it is one of my favorites and one that I have been playing with for quite some time now.I'm also not sure it belongs in the Portrait category, but it's 'about' a person and it didn't really seem to fit in any of the other categories, either....
It was shot it Shanghai, China, early one morning in a public park that I stumbled upon during my wanderings in the old French Concession area. At one end of the parkway were lots of people waltzing in small groups to music coming from a tape recorder and just past that, there were 4 or 5 older men, writing chinese characters on the cement walkway with large brushes and cups of water. Their messages dried and faded away almost as soon as they finished making them....
I read very little chinese, so I have no idea what any of this means, but I call it shanghainese graffiti

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