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🇬🇧 A stolen glance, a slow lean, and the weight of a day pressed into the rhythm of a Rio sidewalk.
Their silence speaks louder than the noise of the street.
Unscripted, unposed – just a Sunday moment, heavy with life and light.
🔗 This photograph is part of the ongoing album Still Streets, Silent Loads – Brazil’s Urban Weights, exploring the invisible weights embedded in urban life across Brazil. → www.flickr.com/photos/201798544@N06/albums/72177720327200016
Cette image fait partie de l’album en cours Still Streets, Silent Loads – Brazil’s Urban Weights, une série sur les poids invisibles qui hantent l’espace urbain brésilien.
🇫🇷 Un regard en coin, une épaule appuyée, et le poids d’un jour coulé dans le tempo d’un trottoir de Rio.
Le silence des corps dit plus que le vacarme de la rue.
Sans mise en scène – juste un instant de dimanche, dense de vie et de lumière.
Strong horizontals, verticals and the combination of yellow framing blacks and whites made this a natural composition, IMO.
Before the show, Roy told me "It's all about how much heart you put in it." And he and the band went on to prove that was very true.
The State Theatre (known as Empire Theatre until 1959) was opened in 1952. This significant example of Post-War Modern Movement architecture had been assessed by Docomomo International as a structure worth preserving due to its importance as a piece of tangible heritage in the North Point region as well as its unique physical construction.
A couple of years ago in 2014, there were concerns among conservationists and North Point residents due to the threat of its demolition in order to redevelop its lot as two high-rise commercial towers. Hence in 2016, the guided-tour agency Walk-In Hong Kong launched a Conservation Advocacy Campaign titled “Save our State” and successfully lobbied the Antiquities and Advisory Board to upgrade its heritage grading status from Grade Three to a Grade One. Recognizing State Theatre’s cultural significance to Hong Kong, New World Development Limited acquired 95% of the complex as its first conservation project.
Update: This article was published in 2014 due to concerns among conservationists and North Point residents due to the threat of its demolition before the official grading by the Antiquities Advisory Board (AAB). Hence in 2016, the guided-tour agency Walk-In Hong Kong launched a Conservation Advocacy Campaign titled “Save our State” and successfully lobbied the AAB to upgrade its heritage grading status from Grade Three to a Grade One. Recognizing State Theatre’s historical and cultural significance to Hong Kong, New World Development Limited acquired 95% of the complex as its first conservation project.
(Under Threat: State Theatre in Hong Kong (updated) | Docomomo Hong Kong)
🇬🇧 A child stands motionless before a wall that screams with messages — drawings, slogans, political tags, social despair.
In the heart of Rio’s Lapa district, this mural captures a raw expression of urban life.
The girl’s silhouette, frozen before the words “Viver na favela é uma arte,” becomes part of the story — silent but charged with meaning.
🔗 This photograph is part of the ongoing album Still Streets, Silent Loads – Brazil’s Urban Weights, exploring the invisible weights embedded in urban life across Brazil. → www.flickr.com/photos/201798544@N06/albums/72177720327200016
Cette image fait partie de l’album en cours Still Streets, Silent Loads – Brazil’s Urban Weights, une série sur les poids invisibles qui hantent l’espace urbain brésilien.
🇫🇷 Une enfant reste figée devant un mur saturé de messages — dessins, slogans, cris politiques, désespoir social.
En plein cœur du quartier de Lapa à Rio, cette fresque incarne une expression brute de la vie urbaine.
La silhouette de la fillette, arrêtée devant la phrase “Viver na favela é uma arte”, semble s’intégrer à la scène — silencieuse mais chargée de sens.
Candid, unposed shot - literally, a drive-by shooting, me (passenger) hiding because of the dangers. I left the wing mirror and the curve of the car roof in this shot as it's kinda part of the story in this case.
The colours of the parasol etc were bleached by the sun, it is not over exposed.
Hair salons were forced to close for two
weeks under newly tightened social-distancing measures.
Hong Kong confirmed 1,161 new
Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, marking
the first time the daily case count has
surpassed 1,000 since the pandemic began,
while two chronically ill patients became the
disease's first fatalities in roughly six months. (20220209 SCMP)
“Ever since the fifth wave broke out, and in light of a potential lockdown, more than 80 per cent of our clients have expressed heightened worries and anxiety,” said Jimmy Wan, director and counsellor of Breathe Counselling.
He added that some clients suffered from health anxiety and their fears of catching Covid-19 had led them to conduct more self-testing or assume the worst if they noticed changes in their body. (20220309 SCMP)
A watchmaker in Old Havana. After 52 years of the Communist Revolution, Cuba's leaders attempt to redefine their economic model. Small changes, such as allowing some people to own businesses, are starting to be implemented, as Raul Castro guides the country towards a 21st Century model of the famed revolution.
Hong Kong’s pandemic-stricken industries have ramped up their appeals for financial compensation or fresh subsidies following the government’s sudden revival of strict social-distancing rules, as businesses warn that losses over the next fortnight could exceed HK$11 billion (US$1.4 billion). (20220106 SCMP)
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#The_Days_We_Wear_Masks 20220109
Hong Kong’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on Wednesday said the government’s plan allowing them to defer rent payments for up to six months might provide short-term relief, but resolution of the difficulties they face depended very much on the fifth Covid-19 wave being brought under control.
SMEs in certain sectors will be allowed to defer their rent payments by up to six months, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said in his budget briefing earlier on Wednesday. The government will introduce legislation to effect the new measures, which will be valid for three months and, if necessary, be extended once more for the same duration, he said. The legislation will lapse automatically after six months.
(20220223 SCMP)
Hong Kong has long been one of the most unequal places on Earth, a city where sleek luxury malls sit shoulder-to-shoulder with overcrowded tenements where the bathroom sometimes doubles as the kitchen. In normal times, that inequality is often concealed by the city’s glittery surface. But during the coronavirus pandemic, its cost has become unmistakable. (20210127 The New York Times)