Erin O'Rourke P H O T O G R A P H Y.
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Mong Kok Night Market: Photo Essay
This is going to be more photo than essay, but after nearly nine solid days of being stuck in the dorm room I couldn’t take it anymore. Needed to get back out there with my camera, was missing Hong Kong and the ability to explore its streets. It was a scary couple of days there [...]
July 1 – Hong Kong SAR Establishment Day
Unfortunately the blog has been silent for much longer than I would have liked, not for lack of ideas or the desire to post but rather illness. Been fighting off what became a very bad case of tonsillitis over the past week and a half. Ironically, I think my issues started on July 1st. As [...]
A Man and His Radio, A Girl and Her Camera
I constantly examine my pictures by “looking for the flaws” first. Rarely do I see a photo straight out of my camera that I deem stunning. It’s with trepidation that I say – the one above qualifies. (I’m sad to say that once uploaded, it doesn’t display the full range of color I’m getting on [...]
D700 First Impressions, with Pictures
Feel like I’m slacking on the content end just a bit here given there are more important posts in the wings, but I wanted to write down first impressions on the D700. After work today (at which I attended an interesting but infuriating labor conciliation meeting) I dashed out immediately with the new camera, going [...]
My precious D100, we had a beautiful run…..
Well, today is the day I’m officially retiring “my baby” – my eight year old Nikon D100. After excessive scrambling and researching of my options, Adorama, one of the best camera shops in NYC, (And the one I favor in the city given they were incredibly helpful when I was researching my first DSLR purchase [...]
“Hong Kong Ruled by Hong Kong People” – Universal Suffrage Protests
Hong Kong is a fascinating place. While on the one hand, it is a very global city (One of its mottoes is actually “Asia’s World City”), on the other it feels very insular to me. I buy the South China Morning Post everyday and try to keep up on the news as part of my [...]
Crazy Girls with Cameras Need not Apply….
Today I found myself running around Central in my best business clothing, trying to get shots of the LegCo (Legislative Council) pro-democracy/pro-government protests in monsoon-like torrential rains. I was having a blast, but I also had to be at a meeting at 6. To further complicate matters, my 8 year old Nikon D100 camera is [...]
My Work in Hong Kong and Thoughts on Law
Introducing legal protections only further entrenches a system that treats them like commodities. It does not solve the problems that force them to migrate – the lack of jobs in their countries and the misdirected political will that pours resources into the Capitalist juggernaut of the region – it only serves as a stopgap for a much larger problem. For me, it is important that these women have the opportunity to make a living without being forced to leave their homes and their families.
1/2 Sheun Wan – A 1st Edition of Mao’s Little Red Book
One of the most interesting things to me was how so many of the stalls have stacks of Mao’s Little Red Book. There are also a lot of kitschy, Mao themed goods. (Perhaps I’m missing something cultural here, but that seems to me like a great disrespect to the millions who died in the Cultural Revolution.) I wasn’t paying much attention to the Red Books until I encountered a stall with a careworn first edition of the Little Red Book in English.
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