{"id":39,"date":"2008-03-02T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T10:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/street-portraits-from-zomba-malawi\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T14:43:03","slug":"street-portraits-from-zomba-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/street-portraits-from-zomba-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Street portraits from Zomba, Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been working on my gallery, PAW or blog (at least, not noticeably working on them) for a couple of weeks because I have been away, in Zomba, Malawi. I am working in a bi-lateral research project between NTNU in Trondheim, Norway (The Norwegian Technical University) and Chancellor&#8217;s College, University of Malawi. In Malawi I am working with the Centre for Language Studies.<\/p>\n<p>I took my Rolleicord V this time and took a couple of rolls. It was immediately recognized as a camera in Malawi, not just a curious little box. So people on the street would often like to have their portrait taken.<\/p>\n<p>This young man was a filmmaker. He was working on his film, &#8220;Give me back my property&#8221; and is evidently inspired by Kung Fu films. He practised martial arts.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/d\/1409-1\/08v07-0005.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This next man is someone I would pass by every morning as I walked to the office.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/d\/1403-1\/08v07-0002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I met these girls as I was walking down to the market on a Saturday afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/d\/1413-1\/08v07-0007.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Individual 1<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/d\/1415-1\/08v07-0008.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Individual 2<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/d\/1417-1\/08v07-0009.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Individual 3<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/d\/1419-1\/08v07-0010.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are more pictures taken with the Rolleicord in the gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/v\/Shoebox\/2008-02\/?g2_page=3\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/v\/Shoebox\/2008-02\/?g2_page=4\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/v\/Shoebox\/2008-02\/?g2_page=5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been working on my gallery, PAW or blog (at least, not noticeably working on them) for a couple of weeks because I have been away, in Zomba, Malawi. I am working in a bi-lateral research project between NTNU in Trondheim, Norway (The Norwegian Technical University) and Chancellor&#8217;s College, University of Malawi. In Malawi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[31,129,30,29,14,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}