"I got this crick ...." Photo

Photographer’s Note

In a street market, somewhere in Tainan

If you got what the taiwanese call " fifty shoulders" ( some sort of shoulder muscular aches etc ), for a small fee - the tui-na masters will ease your pain and discomfit thru accupressure massage - the chinese version of Chiropracy.

The same folks can also give you reflexology or foot-massage, something that you should only try if you love pain .... or a tolerance for it and if you will not cry in public....

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Rinie_Hoff (9332) 2005-04-05 9:22

Hey Steely, by 'accident' opened TE, and find your name again in the gallery. Welcome back!!
And back with a typical Steely street picture I'd say. This time not a hairdo, but a bodydo. I hope you will stay a while.
I got something like that in Beijing, and I can tell you, it's not funny! And I did not even feel better afterwards!

Nice one Steely, a real streetscene, I would have liked to see the woman's face completely. 'Cause it's not only painful to receive, it means hard physical labour for the ones who give it, too.

RGatward (19737) 2005-04-05 10:10

Hello Steely, welcome back, I thought you'd left us. This is a good daily life shot to return with, and, I seem to remember, one of your favourite subjects.

MKING (3050) 2005-04-06 7:29

Welcome back mate, was wondering where you had 'trekked' off to...

It's that woman on the left that entertains my curiosity. I'm sensing a Martin Parr-type moment; from the perspective you've taken her heads bent down in a manner similar to his pictures of people sleeping on subway trains...

I'd be tempted to go right in close quarters on her or anyone like her next time (provided it's OK to do so) and look down on the scene, getting both her bent head fully and the back of the 'victim' plus what's going on. I'm probably theorising too much... By this point it's no longer a 'street scene' but a 'scene' from the street.

wolf38 (12734) 2007-01-30 8:23

Hello Steely. Service at the customer. A very interesting picture. Only thought I, it concern the work of a hairdresser. But the body is treated here. Really worth seeing. Best regards, Wolfgang.