Pictorial Assignment 2:
21th Oct 99' - Demonstration against John Chretien (Prime Minister of Canada) and WTO.
Well, It's a very good "demonstration" of democracy. Outside the Haytt Hotel in down town, demonstrators
cry out the very dirty words to "shame" John Chretine. "Fuck you! John Chretien!"; "Police sucks! Without pepper spray and gun, they are all the same under their underwear!", etc. You think of it. They cry out loud though the huge speakers, so loud that it can be heard a few hundred meters away. While in HK, demonstrators use their very small handy speakers, cry out their slogan far far away from the place… Democracy? Never heard of it in HK. E-Mail
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1. WTO 1: I'm ready for pepper spray iii iii(22.2k)
It's a infamous event in Canada: RCMP use the pepper spray to force out the demonstrators in UBC last year. Obviously someone is ready for it. And personally, I can tell you that no one in the RCMP get punished by this miss behavior…Is it all the same around the world? |
2. WTO 2: Vancouver Hotel, iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii  iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Vancouver people (19.1k)
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3. WTO 3: Police Bannr (19.0k)iiiiiiiiiiiiii
When I first saw this guy, I feel like I'm in the Woodstock again. It certainly has a taste of anti-war. |
4. WTO 4: Drawing for peace (30.8k) 
If the last one has a taste of Woodstock, this one is even more Woodstock… Peace. |
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5. WTO 5: Untitled (29.4k)iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
This picture gives me a feel of the night before the re-union of Germany… |
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P.S. Every documentary assignment gives me a good chance to have some new experiences. After the
success of the June 4, I use the TMAX 400 (push to 1600) again. The only different is that I equip with my new 70-200 f2.8 this time. This certainly give me a better chance to take close up (see picture #3). However, the Tamron 28-200 work out poor in low light situation like this. The TMAX don't help too much on the shutter speed, so I need to use the flash all the time. Therefore, over exposure becomes a big problem (refer to picture#3 again). Thanks to the monopod, some pictures are working quite nice without flash at about only 1/15s without flash.
I'm shame to admit that I expect to see some violence scenes. But it was a peaceful night, and I'm glad
about this. When I saw there are so many police outside the hotel, I find a bit of irony… Do we need so many police to be there? Or every one of them get a pepper spray ready?
Pictures print with Kodak TMAX 400 (push to 1600). Print on Ilford Multigrade IV paper. All pictures were
taken by Canon Eos50e or Eos 100; with Tamron 28mm-200mm f4.0-5.6 or Canon 28mm-200mm f2.8. AV mode.
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