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Orania, South Africa
"On Assignment" of the November Rhythms Monthly
As if
Taiwan
wasn’t far away enough from where he grew up, 23-year-old staff photographer Yen-Yi Liu was sent to
South Africa
on his first assignment for a worthy magazine. However, it turned out that the he almost ended up in his own backyard.
The short, plain-dotting bushes, the cold, concrete streets, the quiet, cozy neighbors, the star-blanked skies…
The town of
Orania
reminded him the smells of home. It was almost too comfortable to work. Perhaps it was the extreme contrast of the rest of
South Africa
that placed him in such an atmosphere. Perhaps it was the English-speaking environment he was used to. Perhaps it was because he just misses
Austin
,
Texas
.
Four days in this “white” utopia wasn’t enough away from shooting out his other assignment within the vehicular entrapment of quasi-security; away from all the current social problems of
South Africa
. Moreover, four days wasn’t enough to capture on film the struggle, history or adaptation of these confidence-stricken preservationists.
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