January 2011
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The Story of Aus
Every immigrant’s story is a love story. Nobody willingly leaves the place they grew up in unless a great love drives them to do so. This could be love for a family, love for a man or woman, or love for one’s self. This is a brief history of my becoming Australian.
I never wanted to leave. I had a good life, a career, man I could quite possibly spend my life with, and my life-long...
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a tiny dancer
A stranger gave me a paper ballerina on a toothpick while I was walking down the street on the way to work. I love the little pockets of beauty and magic I walk into on ordinary days.
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“Love is inconvenient, but it’s an inconvenience I would rather live with...”
– Me. (Ala Paredes)
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Pink Fire
This series of photos taken at the Sydney Festival First Night reminds me of a poem by Rilke called “The Spanish Dancer”. Featuring Australia’s “Queen of Burlesque”, Imogen Kelly.