Category: Royal Trading
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Photography: Work
The main reason for the existence of Royal Trading is so that Pakistani community can work, make a living, and send money to families back home. There’s always work being done when I go there. And there’s always time for chai. Royal Tradingという会社は、在日のパキスタン人たちがパキスタンに残っている家族の家計を支えるためにあります。なので、毎回訪問すると色々な方々が働いています。その中にチャイタイムももちろんあります。
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Photography: Kiran
This is Kiran who I posted about recently. He’s one of the asylum seekers I’m following. His day’s seem pretty empty and he relies on the local muslim community for the majority of things. 前も紹介した難民申請中のキランさん。 毎日暇しているみたい。そして、地域のムスリム社会にかなり頼っています。
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Photography: Cricket in Japan
It’s not often you see a game of cricket being played in Japan and I’m not sure what the mostly elderly onlookers and teenage softball playing kids made of it. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve explained to friends here that their beloved baseball is actually a spinoff of cricket. Not only…
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Photography: Royal Trading Update
It’s been a while since I posted photos from Royal Trading, the Pakistani owned car yard I’ve been visiting recently. It really does feel like I’ve left Japan whenever I go there. A 5 minute drive down the road even takes you to a small restaurant where the only clientele (apart from me) are from…
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Photography: Royal Trading Portraits
Here are a couple of portraits from Royal Trading, a Pakistani-owned car export business in Japan. These were taken after Iftar one evening during Ramadan. I’ve written more about Royal Trading in previous posts.
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Photography: Ramadan
During Ramadan I decided to go the local mosque and start a small project. I mentioned in an earlier post how I thought it was fascinating that there were people fasting during Ramadan in an average Japanese city. But to be completely honest I found that I enjoyed photographing after Iftar (the first evening meal)…
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Photography: Royal Trading
I’ve been visiting Royal Trading International for a few weeks now to find contacts for the refugee project I’m currently working on. It’s a small Pakistani owned car trading company that buys in Japan and sells all over Asia, Africa, and Europe. Consequently, even with the briefest of visits you can meet people from pretty…