Lu Hui Tou means 'Deer Looking Back' I took these photos in China from 2006 to 2007. I taught English in Beijing for a year and a half, and then spent a couple hearty months traveling by bicycle through the southwest provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi, and Yunnan.
Upon returning to the states, I met my husband and photographic partner Michael Julius. He was a paramedic in rural North Florida. We make picture stories together and other miscellaneous projects. We call this endeavor Myopic Pictures.
Everyone Leaves with Something Nice was tangentially inspired by the uncertain job market I faced when I returned home to the states after living in China. A year in pictures of an (unintentional) and short foray with un/under-employment, odd odd jobs, paid medical research, plasma "donation", and an enlightening experience with egg donation in various places throughout Florida, Texas, Arkansas, and Massachusetts. Take what you will.
My profession is teaching English as a Second Language. I travel about doing so, briefly living were there is interesting work.
Miami efímero is from my 8 months of living in Miami, Florida in 2009. 
Suan suan tián tián, in Chinese, means "sour sour sweet sweet." The phrase is the title of several saccharin pop songs popular in Taiwan and China; and commonly, it's a phrase describing a flavor whose metaphor extends to matters of the heart. My photographic senses are drawn to intimate, ordinary scenes that are belied by a note of ambiguous tension.
Michael and I spent 2009-2010 living on the island of Taiwan. As an outsider, all I can attest is to my everyday experience. Perhaps under the influence of an on-going cultural adjustment, the days vacillated from gloomy to bright, from gray utility to colorful superfluity, from a droning monotony to a sporadic, exotic festivity. I hope that the photographed moments epitomize how the sour and sweet- or choose your opposing forces- are always in operation on the everyday, even beyond these Taiwan moments. The idea is to embrace their combination.
We spent 4 months in Fort Worth, Texas.
Meridian Dredging is a trudge through a Beijing rut made from 2011 to 2012. It was inspired by going in, getting all gunky, and trying to leave as clear as a I came.
Spring 2012, Michael and I are cycling from south China all the way to Jakarta, Indonesia.
"Gofeetgo" because I like to go.
All photographs and text copyright Hannah Pierce-Carlson 2010
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