REPORTAGE III: MANY COOKS IN THE BRIDAL BROTH

A young woman's cross-cultural marriage makes her a necessary diplomat among many beauty-ambassadors in the preparation suite. (c) MMXL 2006

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REPORTAGE II: SAFE SEX, PLEASE

Everyone's a dead man in this call to AIDs awareness by playwright Harvey Fierstein, here directed by Marc Boucai in a college production at Swarthmore College, PA (2002).

On stage, the finale "Malibu fuck barbies" sequence is performed to Natalie Choquette's comic rendition of La Traviata. Choreography by MMXL. Note that these images are digital scans of hand processed black and white film.

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REPORTAGE I: EARLY INFLUENCES

I was 16 years old when I reservedly documented the physical therapy work we as group of international school students engaged in with HIV/AIDs patients in a Catholic-run, Kloeng Toey slum, Bangkok hospice. Not only do I not know of the welfare of the patients in these pictures, but I lost sight of my dear friends who were on that trip (Sophie and Adam, here pictured) years ago. Thus I call this reportage one of my own memory, rather than of the people, scenes, events herein.

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