July 09 2010
Yemen 19     (updated) So then this is the last of the week of Yemen roadside shops. I got excited while I was in Yemen by the odd beauty of the usually very cheaply made, steel shuttered shops, with or without their arrangement of goods. I do really like this image, however on my return home I realised I like the open shops with goods on display more when they have people in the scene. The simpler concrete block shops are pretty well an international style of low cost construction and I now wish I had stopped more in China, Vietnam, Mali etc to make more of these type of images. The first of todays posts (I missed yesterday) fits more within the ‘structure in a landscape’ quality of the fuel stations. Again, I was really struck by the fuel stations themselves (Stonehenge like?) while in Yemen but on return like the juxtaposition with the landscape aspect more so would make these photographs more about the context if I had the chance to remake them. (.. always learning to see huh…)

Yemen 19     (updated) So then this is the last of the week of Yemen roadside shops. I got excited while I was in Yemen by the odd beauty of the usually very cheaply made, steel shuttered shops, with or without their arrangement of goods. I do really like this image, however on my return home I realised I like the open shops with goods on display more when they have people in the scene. The simpler concrete block shops are pretty well an international style of low cost construction and I now wish I had stopped more in China, Vietnam, Mali etc to make more of these type of images.

The first of todays posts (I missed yesterday) fits more within the ‘structure in a landscape’ quality of the fuel stations. Again, I was really struck by the fuel stations themselves (Stonehenge like?) while in Yemen but on return like the juxtaposition with the landscape aspect more so would make these photographs more about the context if I had the chance to remake them. (.. always learning to see huh…)



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A photography blog by Robert van Koesveld around learning to see as a photographer: with my own images and process as well as whatever I think inspires, informs, extends or challenges in the struggle to learn to see. There are two supplementary blogs; LTS2 for photography and LTS3 for other Art. The links are at the top above this. They are a place to display others work that I find inspirational and that I want to refer back to. Comments are welcome use 'click to comment' or email me here:

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