S. Peer, Author at In the Know Traveler

Travel, Photography, and Joel Carillet pt2

Posted by S. Peer | Feb 26, 2008 | Camera Talk, Interviews, World |

Part two with Steve Peer’s intervew with Joel Carillet. You do a lot of street photography, do you ever encounter hostility from your subjects? Sometimes, but rarely. A recent experience: I took a picture of the hands of...

Travel, Photography, and Joel Carillet

Posted by S. Peer | Feb 16, 2008 | Camera Talk, Middle East, World |

Joel Carillet is a master of street photography. His captures are a glimpse at places and faces most will never see. In 2003, he embarked on a year-long overland journey starting in China, and finishing in Turkey. His images...

S. Peer

Posted by S. Peer | Jan 14, 2008 | Contributors |

S. Peer once braved the frozen tundra of northern Canada as a reporter and photographer. He now calls southern China home and enjoys the humid clime more than the bone-numbing cold of his native land. He misses little of North...

Tianhou Temple, Shenzhen’s Soulâ€¨

Posted by S. Peer | Jan 14, 2008 | China, World |

Some people say Shenzhen has no soul. The mega-city of 10 million sits on the Chinese mainland next to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Before Deng Xiaoping made Shenzhen a Special Economic Zone in 1979, the city was...