Jana M. Hemsing
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Chinatowns

A photo down a street from a streetcrossing. It is nighttime, down the street many red chinese lantern illuminate the way. A sole person is crossing the image, there is some motion blur on the person.
A photo down an alleyway at night. The walls are green-yellow, illuminated by a few entrance-lights and many lines of red chinese lanterns. A persons shiluette is visible in the forground, taking a photo of the alleyway with a phone.
A row of brilliant red lanterns hanging between two walls, photographed from beneath. Some emergency ladders are visible in the image.
A balcony with many lanterns and decorations around it, illuminated by a row of brilliant red lanters hanging above. The balcony has a ladder to another one on the next level.
An alleyway at night, glossed in warm red light from lanterns above and and bright red entrance to the right. A couple is walking down the alleyway, leaving the light. The entrance to the right has a green-red roof and many signs.
A photo down a street with many cars parked to the left and right, inbetween the cars four red wooden structures emerge. They seem to be parts of restaurants. The buildings to the left and right are cluttered with signs, to a degree where reading them becomes complicated. A traffic sign to the right says
A bus halted in the left half of the image. it is red-silver and reads
A closed storefront with a garage door infront, it has a big pink-green graffitty of a person, that is just partially visible. A red car is blocking the graffitty. The shop has a bright, cold white sign reading
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An elder woman stands to the left of a cluttered street, some people walk by, away from the camera. They are wearing black cothes, a red head, one a blue jacket. The woman looks towards the street, she is wearing a colourful, knitted hat, a mask and a brilliant blue jacket. She seems to be smiling under the mask. There are boxes everywhere, parking meters to the right.
A slightly slanted photo of an alleyway with many chinese lanterns, red decorations and colourful facades. They all are out of focus, focus is on a man in the forground. He is standing on one leg, the other resting on something outside the frame. The man is not slanted on the image, hinting that in reality he was slanted and the camera was moved to upright him. He is wearing an orange jacked and is in the shadows.
A busy street with a bunch of cut flowers to the left, a traffic cone to the right with more flowers. A chinese sign ontop hints in bright red and dark green that this is a flower show. The sign says New Lai Wah Flower Shop
A bunch of dragon masks and wooden mask frames are filling the forground. They are colourful, one is vibrant blue. A large crowd is visible in the out of focus background.
A cluttered street with many paper boxes and wooden pallettes laying on the floor. Two people, one with black clothes and a red hat, the other fully in blue are walking down the street away from the camera. The whole scene is very cluttered, a lot is going on.
A narrow alleyway with a bunch of people lively walking it down beneath a bunch of chinese lanterns and banners with chinese signs. The walls of the alleyway are coloured in a dark yellow.
A tower alike front of a building, it is made of yellow-white sandstone with cyan blue windowsills, under-roofing and decorations. The picture is taken from below, pointing upwards, looking up at the structure. Ontop the wall has outwards facing decoration, two golden dragons around an octagonal ornament with Chinese characters, just above a golden lit window. The entryway has a red tarp. The roofs are in a Chinese style with upwards pointing edges and corners. All the blues and red are slightly pastel.
A photo taken from close to the ground, the floor is filling most of the image with its slightly dirty surface. To the left a person sits leaned against the wall, smoking a cigarette, looking away from the camera. Some people walk in the distance, red and green shops arise to the right.
A housefront with a messy and cluttered emergency latter, it is full of posters, banners and textx. The house has a dirty-beige-yellow colour. A person is sitting on the top right platform, seemingly smoking.
A collage of various older and newer signs and banners on a wallface. Seemingly some of the signs are very old and non-functional, newer ones have been added instead of removing the older ones. A very old looking one has a pale grey-blue tone and blown out neon tubes. A red, washed out banner rests next to it, a much newer sign exits the bottom.
A scene from seemingly within a building complex. There is a park like floor with a man sitting on a bench, turned away from the camera and in the shadows. Behind the man there is a roofed balcony with shops on the bottom and top floor. The roof is green due to bushes. Atop the roof there is an elongated building which looks like a living situation. Another even higher building rises to the left. All walls have Pastell tones with some brighter Pastell colours I between.