Focus Reports Yearbook 2011

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for mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation,

never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in

THE EXPERIENCE

Alex Garland, The Beach, 1996

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PREFACE

January, 2012--- At the heart of Focus Reports lies a spirit of adventure. It is a lifestyle which can fling you from the intense heat of India’s bustling cityscapes to the penetrating cold of Russia in February. One day you can be strolling through the proud architecture of the historical city of London, another you can be awestruck by the natural beauty of Malaysia’s Malacca straits. We travel to countries which feel the full weight of their history like Poland, to those ‘New World’ countries entirely focused on the present like Australia and to those transfixed on the future like China. In all of these countries we encounter individuals of every ethnicity, creed and outlook.


The pictures collected in this album are meant to serve as a reminder of the places we have been, the people we have met and the thoughts that flashed through our heads at the time. We have all had to adjust to life ‘on the field’ and the specificities of cultures that can delight and astound us on one day, whilst baffling, dumbfounding and quite frankly irritating even the most resilient of us on another day. However challenging we find this itinerant lifestyle, it is the sights and experiences like those collected in this album which remind us why we do what we do.

The 2011 Yearbook Committee


August, Matheran - India



The water sport attractions you see through the lenses are a bitter reminder that I had to borrow these sunglasses when my previous pair ended up at the bottom of the Malacca Straits after an unfortunate dare involving a jet ski.

January, Lankawi Island - Malaysia


November, Cape Town - South Africa


April, Bombay - India


The angels -- French performers’ group above the throne of the Russian empire, Palace Squarein St. Petersburg. They threw feathers down to the ground, and one man rode a

sky-bicycle slowly past the apex of the Alexander column.

May, St. Petersburg - Russia


Dried chilli peppers hanging from a house in a tiny old Greek village in Turkey. Everything is natural, home made, delicious and peaceful.

August, Sirince - Turkey


Its the people, the lifestyle, the mystical charm - India has always amazed the world with her uniqueness. Holi, one of the country's most important festivals, is in a class of its own... ...Filled with a unique thrill, the colorful festival bridges the social gap where the entire nation celebrates the triumph of "good" over "bad"... Social barriers literally disappear. For a day.

March, Mathura - India


"Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you." Maori Proverb

June, Budapest - Hungary


A photo on Dale's Chihuly Expo in Boston, USA. In Jack Johnson's words "move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing"

June, Boston - USA


June, Toronto - Canada


July, Constanta - Romania


A single spirited gesture to a generation

of proud, illustrious

Soviet workers made by a younger

generation who spent

more time at the Soviet Park of Economic Achievement

laughing at the sewing

exhibition, riding on the amusements and eating over-priced

shashlik. Fewer places

in Russia better highlight

post-soviet degradation.

August, Moscow - Russia


“The best mirror is an old friend."

-- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

November 2010, Agra - India


March, Delhi - India


May, Varanasi - India



Left: Neon Ride. June, Toronto - CanadaFar Left: One of the unexpected aspects of the harrowing tour of Auschwitz is just how beautiful the surrounding countryside is. This place of immense suffering is surrounded by green fields and poplar trees. The windows provide a little break from the history of what went on inside. April, Oświęcim - Poland.

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

-- James E. Starrs


Budapest, Hungarian Parliament Building - As late Americna photographer Garry Winogrand would say "I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up"

September, Budapest - Hungary


Moscow, Christ the Saviour Cathedral – While crossing the bridge of over the river Moskva for a delicious Sunday brunchin Strelka.

September, Moscow - Russia


February, New York - USA




June, Toronto - Canada


May, Buenos Aires - Argentina


Palomino Islands in Callao, Lima. Fog, a million sea lions & Peru's enigmatic charmFebruary, Lima - Peru


As the world population tops the 7bn mark, The Ganges remains a lifeline to millions of Indians who live along its course. More than the most heavily populated river basin in the world, The Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus.



February, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil


June, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Above: May, Machu Picchu - Peru

Left: June, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

-- Ellsworth Huntington


Bottom right: At first I was ashamed of taking the homeless as subjects for my photographs. I soon realized it was part of this country and a shocking reality.

Far right: Two snake charmers give us a rough idea of what India probably lookedlike in the 1950s.

May, New Delhi - India

March, Varanasi - India

Right: Or how the sacred cow observes globalization from up close.


August, Jaipur - India


March, Goa - India


What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

-- St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 397

Above: The Miraflores district of the Peruvian capital enjoys its daily natural spectacle. May, Lima - Peru.

Left, -11,000 miles farther and 23 hours later-: Thisfairly standard shot captures the peace and tranquility which South East Asia is especially good at. Whilst Bali is known for Western tourism and towns like Kuta give it a party-island reputation, these sunsets are always close-by.January, Tanah Lot Temple in Bali - Indonesia.

May, Lima - Peru


September, Mumbai - India




November, Johannesburg - South Africa


March, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil


The Kremlin in all its magnificence. Moscow makes it very clear where its power is located and this building is likely to grow a lot more powerful in March 2012 when its previous occupant returns.

May, Moscow - Russia


January, London - United Kingdom


This is not a theatre stage inspired by Salvador Dali’s paintings. Yet, the sand colored limestone formations located in Western Australia can give you that abstract and surreal feeling of strolling through one of his masterpieces.

July 2010, The Pinnacles in Perth - Australia


Right:

Neon Ride, Toronto

November 2010, Agra - India


“A nation's culture resides in the hearts ...

May, Varanasi -

India


...and in the soul of its people” -- Mohandas Gandhi.

May, Varanasi -

India



Above: You wouldn't think sustainability and greener solutions are pronounced in the Holy City of Varanasi. Yet, as wood has become scarce and expensive, new electric crematoriums are increasingly being used. May, Varanasi - India.

Left: Some shadow, some Punjabi music on the radio, she does not seem to be in need of a better life. Yet, thousands of children in Mumbai live in shacks in the numerous slums of the India’s capital, and often do not have access to education. May, Mumbai - India.


Kakadu National Park -- Some dating back over 20 thousand years, these Aboriginal paitnings in Australia seem to depict a community gathering. It brings to mind many stories... What comes to your mind?

April, Kakadu National Park in Darwin - Australia


January, Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia

This was taken at 5am next to the Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur. In a country as ethnically diverse as Malaysia, this is just one of many national festivals for the Hindu Tamil community. A vast sea of Indian men and women is joined by other Malaysians eager to watch.


February, Lima - Peru


October, Moscow State University - Russia


May, St. Petersburg - Russia


October, Moscow - Russia


Monument to the conquerors of space

October, Moscow - Russia


Keep Walking

February, New York - USA


Clearly the pervasive smoking bans of Western Europe have not yet reached the pharmacies of Krakow. Perhaps this expresses a certain fatalism in a people who have been through a lot in their history; perhaps she took the job in order to quit. April, Krakow - Poland.


‘How many of you in there ?’ ’27!!’ shouted one. They did not lose any bet; this is the daily life of these schoolboys of Jaipur, city counting 3.7m heads. And they don’t seem too unhappy about it, do they? August, Jaipur - India.



"Job-less"

Left:

Farewell notes to Steve Jobs mark the walls of a Canadian Apple Store.

October, Toronto - Canada

Right:

The autumnal shedding of leaves: pathetic fallacy for the fact that the British

are now also missing jobs.

October 2010, London -United Kingdom




July, Johannesburg - South Africa


July, Tulcea - Romania


"Which of my photographs is my favorite?"

"The one I’m going to take tomorrow."

– Imogen Cunningham


Photo Committee

Liekens Koen

Nandin Ines

Ozkan Merlin

Waddell James

Support

Villemin Emmanuel

Submissions

Carayon Nicolas

Coury Crystelle

Georgescu Mariuca

Khasanova Inam

Kholosanova Maria

Muntyan Andrey

Neveu Marine

Richard Fleur

Promotors

Boucheseiche Frederic

Viola Diana

Special thanks to ...



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