Horsemen of the Son Kul https://journals.worldnomads.com/raya2046/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:24:28 GMT World Nomads Adventures Well, I don’t live in China cause I do live in Milan, Italy. Yet sometimes Milan can actually become more Chinese than expected. Close to my apartment for instance - next to the Chinatown block. That’s where I met four sisters working in my favorite restaurant, we became friends, we started eating together and then I decided that I wanted to see their real home, back in China. My plan was to join their fifth, youngest sister - Yu - to bring her and their parents some pictures I took before leaving. It was my third time in China and the most special one. Yu is studying English at the university in Wenzhou and she would like to become an English guide for foreign tourists, but not so many tourists pass by Zhejiang province, even though the large majority of the current migration phenomenon towards Italy is out of Wenzhou. Her English is shy just like her, therefore most of the communication was carried by our smartphones via WeChat - the principal App for young people to talk inside and outside China. This did not prevent her from sharing her food and city and neighborhood with me. The story is part of a longer term project through which I would like to show with photography to other people the background of men and women that we can meet daily, at a shop, in a laundry, at the restaurant…but we do not normally know anything about. I am convinced that sharing people’s stories can be a starting point for mutual exchange, understanding and respect. https://journals.worldnomads.com/raya2046/photos/52019/China/My-Scholarship-entry-Back-to-China Travel China raya2046 https://journals.worldnomads.com/raya2046/photos/52019/China/My-Scholarship-entry-Back-to-China#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/raya2046/photos/52019/China/My-Scholarship-entry-Back-to-China Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:52:00 GMT 0 I've always loved photography. Or I guess so. But I didn't know until the day my father put an old Canon in my hands and I started making efforts to get my horizons straight. It was Africa and he was giving me the greatest of gifts: I was picturing the world through the meeting with people of any culture, color and gender, and, from that instant on, through the eye of my camera. I was hardly trying to understand while framing my story, rather than writing it down. When a couple of years ago he got into a serious illness which attacked his bones I started exploring more and more alone, on my own reporting back from different routes. Photography is something very important to me, it is a need to express what I live and experience and tell this to other people who can not be there and see it. Because world is the greatest book and mankind writes it, someone has to witness it. I would love to go with Jason on the assignment for many good reasons that many people express: let my photography become more and more professional, learn, and then learn and then again, learn, and live the experience. Plus, white is my favorite color (well a sort of). And Greenland has a lot to do with it. https://journals.worldnomads.com/raya2046/photos/43602/Kyrgyzstan/A-place-I-have-visited Travel Kyrgyzstan raya2046 https://journals.worldnomads.com/raya2046/photos/43602/Kyrgyzstan/A-place-I-have-visited#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/raya2046/photos/43602/Kyrgyzstan/A-place-I-have-visited Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:50:57 GMT 0