Asian Lives: A Closer Look DFS-E How to Read a Painting

How to Read a Painting

Now unwilling to let crime go unpunished

It's food for sharing

- I Want a Party

and sorrow--the only thing truly inevitable is that these forces are building to a brutal climax

Asian Lives: A Closer Look DFS-E How to Read a PaintingIn 2011, adhering to his mentor Henri Cartier Bresson's mantra to `photograph the truth', animation filmmaker Ishu Patel embarks on a photographic journey in southeast Asia. Abandoning moving images to secure a series of still images that capture a uniquely human gesture or powerful thought provoking story, he prowls both urban and rural areas armed only with a Leica M9 with 35 and 50mm fast lenses. The result is a collection of elusive still images