an innocent time : 無料・フリー素材/写真
an innocent time / In Memoriam: sa_ku_ra
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| 説明 | ...the title has everything to do with me and my perspective on things, not about the store itself. I was in Amsterdam, in June of 2001, visiting my then-boy friend who is Dutch. We both love food, so it was a trip filled with good eating and good market sightings. He was staying in Leiden at the time (which I loved) but we took the short train ride into Amsterdam several times. We walked around one of the big street markets. I remember delighting in the altogether different hue of multiculturalism in Holland, a different mix of ethnicities, languages, and cultures from what I was familiar with in Canada and the United States. If you think about colonialism it's a no brainer, but it was really interesting to encounter a whole slew of Indonesian restaurants, for example, normal as pie - Indonesian cuisine still is relatively rare in North America. I'm not sure about their countries of origin, but there seem to have been a sizable population from the African continent. And the store above, I believe is Algerian (I'm not 100% sure...). My ex wanted me to try some really good Mergueze sausage, which is why we ended up at this storefront. It was very good :)The point of this story is something like this. I have been a beneficiary of multiculturalism in Canada, both as an ethnic minority (LOL, I don't think I ever described myself as such in text) and as a person living shoulder-to-shoulder with people speaking another tongue, hailing from different origins, living another culture. That was always an unquestioned GOOD to me, and I scoffed at the xenophobes. My encounter with this store, with Holland, happened in June of 2001, when that good was unchallenged - at least in my naive perspective. This - the store and what this encounter spoke to me - is a good, will always be a good. I just did not foresee that in a mere few months, I will be looking at this image also through a filter of sadness with the knowledge that what I consider a good, in other quarters trigger visceral suspicion and fear. Writing this actually made me tear up a little bit.[commentary added this morning after being too incoherent and sleepy last night] |
| 撮影日 | 2001-06-01 00:00:00 |
| 撮影者 | In Memoriam: sa_ku_ra , between places |
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