After Shanghai I did nothing for about 4 days. But soon I was back working morning till dusk to process all the photographs I had produced in order to supply the great demand of images by numerous magazines that wanted to publish them. One day I got a mail from Arthur Wortmann Editor of Mark Magazine in Amsterdam. He asked me for a contribution towards an article they were preparing on the Shanghai Expo. However the idea they had in mid was totally different as he wanted to talk about it in a completely different way. The brief was simple and open. He was going to ask myself and 4 other photographers to submit an image of the Expo as they were planning an article out of the conventional: "The idea is to ask several photographers to send in their favourite Shanghai Expo photo that does not show a specific pavilion. So it either gives an overview, focusses on the behaviour of visitors, shows some brilliant detail, illustrates Chinese bureaucracy, or whatever, as long as it is an image that is dear to you and doesn't look like the 'portrait' of one of the pavilions", he proposed.
It took me 15 seconds to reply to his email as I was right in front of my computer. My proposal was immediately accepted with great joy as Arthur and David ( both Dutch) do appreciate sense of humor.
I recently got a copy of the magazine and in an article titled " Shanghai in Numbers".With pictures by Roland Halbe, Iwan Baan, Duccio Malagamba and Nick Lehoux , my photograph " The wedding photographer" got -much to my delight- a double page display which looks wonderful and quite amusing I must say.
The article can be seen in Mark 27
