Faces of Taiwan
(2007-2025)
Left: Weighting medicinal dried-plants
in a shop of Dihua Street, in Taipei. Right: Shooting photos of a bride in
Taichung Park, in Taichung.
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Young woman taking a selfie in front of
the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
Street market in Taipei.
In a night market in Taipei.
Tasting various kinds of tea in a
traditional tea shop in the Wenshan district of Taipei.
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Women leaving a religious ceremony in
the Bao-an temple, in Taipei.
In a market street of Tamsui
Scenes of the Miaoku
night market in Keelung.
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Woman performing ritual
steps upon entering the Wuji Tianyuan temple, in New Taipei City.
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Preparing offerings in the Wanhe temple,
in Taichung.
In the Feng Chia night market in
Taichung.
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In the traditional Wu Wei Tsao Tang tea
house in Taichung.
Musicians in the old Longshan temple of
Lukang.
Celebration day in the Matsu temple of
Lukang.
People carrying small
Matsu statues that had been blessed in the Chaotian temple of Beigang, Yulin
County.
Men dressed as Taoist
gods in a street procession near the Chenghuang temple.
- Nuns in the Guanyin
hall of the Baihe Daxian temple, northeast of the
Tainan City municipality.
Blessing of small statues
in incense smoke, in the Huoshan Biyun temple, northeast of the Tainan City
municipality.
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Harvesting tea leaves in the hills
surrounding the village of Rueili.
In a traditional restaurant serving soup
with sausage, in Tainan.
In a night market in Kaohsiung.
In a restaurant in Kaohsiung.
Families playing and flying kites in a
park of Kaohsiung.
People on scooters leaving the ferryboat
between Kaohsiung and nearby Cijin island.
Fishermen on a jetty of Cijin island.
Demonstration of old-style martial art
near Kaohsiung.
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Ming Huang, a member of the Bunun aboriginal
tribe, one of the three high-mountain aboriginal tribes remaining in Taiwan. He
guided me during my 2015 south-to-north traverse of the Yushan National Park.
He lives near the village of Dongpu in Nantou County.
People playing mahjong under a banyan
tree in Liyushan Park, in Taitung.
In the night market of Taitung.
Preparing breakfast in a small
restaurant in the village of Guanshan, north of Taitung in the East Rift
valley.
Women repairing fishing nets and
cleaning oysters (below) in the Penghu islands.
Man cooking and selling noodles in
Jincheng, on Great Kinmen island.
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Quiet nightlife in Jincheng, on Great
Kinmen island.
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