Migrants
103 creative works found
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This is Saleem. He and his family are immigrants to Australia from Sudan. They came here to make a new life but life seems not to be the dream they hoped for here. He wants to be a pro photographer or maybe a bricklayer and take some skills gained in Australia back to his homeland and try to make a new life there. I met Saleem while photographing the streets of Melbourne in December 2006. In this shot he posed for me on the hood of his car. Yes, there is a story here if there ever was one. A man and his dreams. I related to Saleem in a way that men who dream know each other. I wish Saleem and his family all the best and hope he can realise his dreams.
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Photographed in the Butterfly House at Melbourne Zoo, Victoria, Australia.
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Aesha mixta. Devon, UK
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FUSIONartPHOTOGRAPHY.com SOLD I want the world to know about Liangshuo and his migrant workers. This famous young chinese artist created the Migrant Workers of China for the Shanghai Biennalle/2000/”Shanghai Spirit”. These inspiring figures are situated in the grounds of the Shanghai Art Museum. Everytime I visited the grounds of the Shanghai museum I would photograph these characters. At this time I had no idea what they were BUT they intrigued me. They seemed so very very miserable. I wanted take them on a journey in my mind and make their lives happier. My curiosity got the better of me and I asked the curator. To cut a long story short…...as each image was completed I send to Liang/at first he was very surprised and then it became a game. Liang’s migrant workers became all consuming to me and I thank him for allowing me and my imagination no boundaries. Epson/Shanghai /actually looked at the series and suggested the title “Journey of Dreams” before actually printing off the series and sending to Japan. These are not in order of presentation . There are millions of migrant workers in China. They are the courageous men and women building the new world. They leave their families and head to the cities with hopes and dreams/fears/purpose in their hearts and minds. They want to create a better life for themselves and their families and so their dreams are intertwined with ours. Epson Graphics Category/2005 1 of 18 images sent from Shanghai/China to Japan for Photo Imaging Competition/awarded a Merit and then Honorable and then…../ housed permanently in Japan. The Migrant Workers of China There were many articles in the newspapers in China about problems facing the migrant workers..so many away from home for so long. Aids was the warning. / So here we have one of Liangshou’s migrant workers after a big night out/feeling very pleased with himself he glances over and sees the sign. His heart sinks and guilt pervades his mind. The green door is the next image in the folio/Behind the green door is a dr’s surgery and the sign says please come through this door to see me if you have a sexual disease which you need treated…….......... The image of Mao was taken whilst exploring an area in Shanghai which was to be demolished. By now this image would have vanished. I was completely intrigued by this man after reading “Mao/The Untold Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. The description on the book cover is very damning describing the book as “a mesmerising portrait of tyranny,degeneracy,mass murder and promiscuity,a barrage of revisionist bombshells, and a superb piece of research. This is the first intimate, political biography of the greatest monster of them all” The old man was photographed in Guilin. I wondered about this mountain of a man /what had happened to him in past days in China and why now so stooped and so I combined both images for obvious reasons. / I was actually in a photo shop waiting for some developing when I was approached by a suited chinese who asked could he see my photos and I said “no problems”. So after looking on the computer he called me over and said could I please explain this image. My response was very typical of my thought process /speak 1st and think of the consequences later. Actually in the original image there were also 2 birds flying overhead. I told him this old man was now free as the birds overhead/ free to think whatever thoughts and walk wherever he wished for the rest of his life. From that time I had a problem with this photoshop even though we had become friends….............. As you can see from this image the cutting of the photographs is very poor but was amazed even at that stage at the power of combining images. I started working on the migrant workers in preparation for a photoshop course at Jiao Tong University/Shanghai. It was the fear of failing the course that set me working on the images of Liang’s Migrant workers of China and each day the story grew…........... linking the history of Japan and China / The Green Door / HERE
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This Robin landed in a tree near my back deck, mostly I just see them on the ground. I was happy to get this photo.
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Scheyville National Park to the NW of Sydney, is the site of an old Army camp, used to house migrants after WW2. Conditions were basic, but a real home for the thousands of displaced persons who passed through there, having survived the ravages of the war in Europe. Some of our old family friends lived in this camp… This powerboard is on one of the old and now dilapidated wooden huts which may have served as a “common room” in years gone by. / /
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Taken at slimbridge 3rd floor roof at iso 800 f8 1/250th secs 300mm focal length
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The White Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae, breeding in the warmer parts of Europe (north to Estonia), northwest Africa, and southwest Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan). It is a strong migrant, wintering mainly in tropical Africa, down to the south of South Africa, and also in the Indian subcontinent. Threats to the species include the drainage of wetlands and other agricultural intensification, collisions with overhead power lines, use of persistent pesticides (such as DDT) to combat locusts in Africa, and (largely illegal) hunting on passage and the wintering grounds (HBW). Some birds, known in German as Pfeilstorch (“arrow storks”), have been found in Europe with African arrows embedded in their bodies.
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and darn proud of it. This is another Robin photo I found in my files I thought I would share with you. Taken from my home in Missouri. Canon 40D, Canon 70mm-200mm f/4 L series lens.
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Male Migrant Hawker Dragonfly
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Male Migrant Hawker Dragonfly
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An American goldfinch wintering in Louisiana is like sunshine on a branch, a welcome sight during the cold months.
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i hope you will like it, / this is my first oil pastel drawing, / i don’t have a fixative, how hard was it to manipulate it, / i’m glad i could do this already; oufffff! / OIL PASTEL PENCILS ON CANSON 160GSM MI-TEINTE
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This is the first time I’ve ever seen a blue grosbeak in my yard; this one was very skittish and shy and didn’t give me many chances to snap his photo, but I did manage to get this one. At first, I mistook him for an indigo bunting; then I realized those russet wing bars did not fit in the indigo’s description. A quick trip to the field guides and his true identity was revealed. What a lovely bird! I think he’s just passing through during the spring migration which is peaking right now in mid April.
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Nikon FTn Kodak TXP Film
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I photographed Antonio in 1977. I was working on a story pertaining to abominable housing of illegal alien migrant farm workers in Homestead, Florida. Basically they were slave labor, housed in concentration camp environments. Enjoy your next tomato! Nikon FTn, 50mm f.14, TriX film.
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The Laborer / / In the sizzling heat of the afternoon / Clothes drenched and shoes filled with sweat / Last nights long shift makes the body ache / In growing age when the muscle is the only strength / The will like faith growing stronger with each passing day / A disease knocking at the visceral parts of the body / Joints now like the hinges in the machine need oil / Moved in hundreds and like all others / Away from the family and the little ones memory / A letter from the home in need of money / For the doctor’s fee as education is forlorn desire / Minimum wage half robbed by the supervisor / And like a true competition in economics / Out on the metal gates a replacement is waiting / Alienated from the production of the product / Creating surplus for the consumption of the rich / His toils are in the shine of the markets in goods glittering / Unaware of the political upheaval / No care for his welfare / He has no future; his children will also work like him / The power of the muscle, will and faith / He is a laborer who if not given the job / Will go for a daily wage and sleep on the road side / Poverty is his bread, poverty his butter / Poverty that alienates / Poverty the missing link / Poverty the slogan / Poverty it said is loved by the prophets / Poverty it said is gods chosen creed / Poverty the banner / Poverty the tears / Poverty the helplessness / Poverty the consciousness / Break it free / The ordained writing on the book of fate / To bring it down / Open its pages / Remove the names / Of all the people poor / Break it free / The pages they call divine / For divinity is me / Divinity is you / For I shall write / My own destiny / On the book of fate / Up from the skies / Down to the earth / In poverty I will live / But on my own choosing / Break the bond / Of eternal slavery / Poverty / Thou art the bitterest vice Sadiqullah Khan
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THIS WORK HAD BEEN FEATURED IN THE SISTERHOOD GROUP – THANK YOU VERY MUCH :) ... this is just a little painting – acrylic on orange card / ... made from imagination/memory …. about 15 years ago of my mother -in-law and my daughter …. / ... I download this as I work on a larger painting right now and it also involves a lot of ‘making things up’ .... and so I found it interesting, that in such times I seem to get into this particular way of doing it ….. is it my style ?
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fairly recent one – last years – drawing / life drawn – about 30 minutes and then tone and textures and ‘wrinkles’ added … led pencils on A3 size cartridge paper / ... Lotty is my neighbour, she is over 80 years of age and she came here to this place from Germany after the second world war … she is now on her own most of times and sometimes she seems very disoriented, because of the loss of her independence due to many health problems …. she loves our dog …..
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At the park it’s a laugh, / Dog shit kid breath, no-one takes a bath. / Kids looking to score who are to late / Boys and girls looking for a date. / Even the wild life don’t care, / They all seem to laugh and stare. / Have a talk about something new, / It all makes you want to spew. / Four hundred pounds of dog shit fertilizer. / Everyone’s in a daze, / With its nuclear haze. / ........................... Not quite sure / They are all so poor / Who made this park, / A freaking beggar man in the dark. / Its an open air asylum for people insane / Strangest weather never be same. / You cant look into someone’s face, / Without it turning to disgrace. / Rooks and crow, / They surely no. / Instead of looking for worms, / Like a regular boffin / They dig a hole shaped like a coffin. / .......................................................... A regular fashion show / Colours in clothes just glow and glow. / If you haven’t got a pass, / You might as well eat the grass. / Dogs even walk to quick / When looking for a stick. / Its like Jurassic park made for a lark, / Stray cats daren’t show their face / They no their place, / And it’s not the park. Poem: Shark Park. Nawroski 2009. / Drawing: Soft graphite pencil on 170gsm cartridge paper.. / Maybe because I dont like tourists?
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A beautiful Admiral came by to my garden today. They are migrants from southern Spain and are seldom able to survive the winter up here in the Gothenburg area. Every spring they have to wager the voyage across the Pyrenees, where many of them perish to frost, birds and harsh winds. They are real Brave Hearts!!
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we will grow old in this place / where insistent sun / bleaches the memory / of touchstones. / yet our children feel at home / and grow impatient / with mothers who need road maps / and are frightened of the dark. (Ann Timoney Jenkin)
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