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I like the series but it would have been nice to shoot them with more of their environment in the background. It begins to get boring just looking at the people lined up against a door or wall.

just my thoughts

mike a

agree.

hmm...good point...actually the door is in a shortime sex room(a sex workers enviroment), will try to include more of the portraits I shot on the beds later...when your in a room like that your sort of limited where you can shoot. If you shoot on the street you can get some good shots but the danger factor goes up. The people that make money from the sex industry (bar owners, corrupt police, mama/papa sans) do not like photos to be made, especially if you have professional looking equipment. If you shoot in the actual downstairs bar areas your libel to be punched out by an angry sex tourist (there are also no photo signs everywhere). I do agree with you thou, the photos need to be varied, I actually was going to photograph people in their private homes but I only had 2 weeks to do the photos in, I had subjects willing to pose but no time to make the photographs, will try to focus on that next time, thanks for the feedback.