going nowhere fast

stop (looking for me)

2015

The Many Lives Along the Yangtze River

In 2012, Mustafah Abdulaziz, a twenty-six-year-old originally from Bedford-Stuyvesant, who carried a medium-format Japanese film camera called the Mamiya 7, set out to take pictures of water. 

In many places, he focussed on issues of conservation and the health consequences of unclean water, but he also shot images of daily life and ritual along the Ganges and the Nile. Everywhere he went, he carried the Mamiya 7, two lenses, a backpack, and a maximum of ninety rolls of film. He reached the Yangtze River in the spring of 2015.

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape.”

Taylor Madison from Superheaven @ bledfest 2015 

by: Amber Nicole Photos

“This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.”