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The Tsunami, 1


The Tsunami, 1
Photo Information
Copyright: Cordelia Gee (chocolate29) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 386 W: 35 N: 590] (2605)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-06-02
Categories: Daily Life, Artwork, Event
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30, Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 1:28-3.7/7.4-88.8
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-06-02 7:31
Viewed: 785
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
When the tsunami struck on the beautiful morning of Sunday, 26 December 2004 the lives of the survivors changed forever. Since then they have had to rebuild their lives, usually from scratch.

The photo shows a colourful hand-painted batik fabric from a group called 'Pruteow' and consisting of some 16 survivors in Southern Thailand. They mostly come from the devastated village of Bang Nian. Supported by the Tsunami Craft Centre (www.tsunamicraft.com) they have been able to develop this new trade to the point of ensuring a new livelihood for themselves and their families.

I am posting this image also to show you the amazing artistic talent of these villagers. The colour combination with different blue tones, browns and green is superb. For me this is an astonishingly classical composition, which also includes a frame in frame (rocks, sailing boats and palm trees).

These people would not have had a single art lesson in their lives.

Thank you for visiting.

PP: cropped, added contrast, slight saturation, frame and re-sized. The white spot in the lower RH corner is left to keep the 'authenticity' of the original. So is the 'sharpness', this is batik work on cotton.
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Hi Cordelia, thank you for the picture of this artwork and a nice follow-up to how the survivors are coping after the tsnumai. I really like the simplicity and the beautiful colorson the cotton fabric! TFS Cordelia!

best wishes
Steve

PS How's Mek and his girlfriend?

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  • LuciG Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1412 W: 162 N: 743] (8642)
  • [2006-06-02 11:23]
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Thank you Cordelia for this sincere and touchy picture.

Luci

Hi Cordelia. Very nice presentation. Beautiful colors in the artwork. Thanks for sharing.

Hello Cordelia!
Superb tribute to the courage and difficult life of the Tsunami survivors.
More amazingly , this beautiful piece of art ,is still showing the beauty of Thailand instead of rememebering the disaster events.
Bravo and thanks for the useful note!
Robert

Hello Cordelia, what a great photo you did for a nice tribute for these hard working people. This is a very nice gesture.

And you did a great job on the photo.

Take care Yan.
p.s many thx on my "Full Sail" photo.

Wow Cordelia!
Thanks a lot for this!
Claudine

Hi Cordelia,
From Humour to life-changing moments. That's TL. I think nobody will ever forget the tsunami, but to have lived through it, lost family or friends, that must have been sheer hell.
The creators of this batk on cotton are very creative, as are you for seeing and capturing it this way.
TFS Picture and story.
Els

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  • lavan Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 537 W: 2 N: 78] (2072)
  • [2007-09-17 4:41]

Good one...


I Like it

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