I went to the photographic shop Litu, apparently one of the best in Xiamen, in order to get a print done for the exhibition. They do indeed do a good job, making test prints and perhaps over eagerly offering photoshop services to ‘improve’ the image. In any case, they produced a good print at a very reasonable price. What surprised me however when I was there was the other customers. When my job was printing the next man came along with his files and they were opened on one of the computers by the staff there in the main small front area of the shop. To my surprise they were a set of pornographic images showing a couple engaged in oral sex. I couldn’t make out whether the customer was the man in the image or not, whoever it was was rather obscured in the pictures and in any case, I didn’t want to appear to be gawking.
Now I’m not prudish but I wasn’t expecting to see that out front for everyone to gander at. In a matter of fact way the assistant adjusted the files then sent them to get printed in just the same manner as he had been working on my images. I thought to myself, this would not happen in the UK.
