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This information spans every significant relationship I ever had. Back before Spotify, before iTunes, Apple Music and CDs; we used to make mix tapes for our girlfriends or for parties we were either hosting or attending. Without fail, the first track on my first tape would always be the first 30 seconds or so of UB40's D.U.B Dub. There was just something about it that set the whole tape up and ensured its place as the opening song on side A. At nineteen I was still a teanager when I first heard it and I hadn't heard it in the last twenty years or so because it was never re-released on CD or digitally in the time since I stopped sampling off vinyl. I finally got to hear it a few days ago when I purchased a turntable and hooked it up to my computer ...read more

I know someone who is in China this month visiting some of the places that I visited almost two years ago. The village that I stayed in for five very cold days will – at some point in the near future – be turned into a city of apartment blocks. The land used for farming will disappear and the farmers re-housed. As I write this I am already formulating a plan to re-visit Weifang to document the changes. There are people there that will be greatly affected by these changes. Some for the better, but also some for the worse. One of the earliest moments that I captured on film was that of children playing in a tree. I found the simplicity of that activity quite profound in that it reminded me of my own childhood when the technology-driven toys that western children take for ...read more