Here and there http://gonzale.net/blog (almost) daily life of Charlotte Gonzalez Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:16:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 (zoe and sun) http://gonzale.net/blog/zoe-and-sun/ http://gonzale.net/blog/zoe-and-sun/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:16:32 +0000 Charlotte Gonzalez http://gonzale.net/blog/?p=1583 My sister has those eyes sometimes…

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Dolphins in the north.

Turtles in the east.


close up of the dolphin here

A turtle is laying her eggs. “no photo, no photo!”. Ok.

Next chapter, “stones” :)

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We went to the desert for a night and left the next morning…

Moonrise….

And sunrise.

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We left for the green moutains.

Expect other blog entries very soon :)

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]]> http://gonzale.net/blog/_/feed/ 4 Hariri’s Day http://gonzale.net/blog/hariris-day/ http://gonzale.net/blog/hariris-day/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:01:37 +0000 Charlotte Gonzalez http://gonzale.net/blog/?p=1513 You can find out about it in the news i think. or here if you’re lazy :)

I never asked for anyone to pose. When i shot portraits, it’s because the people asked me to.




]]> http://gonzale.net/blog/hariris-day/feed/ 8 Back and forth and back http://gonzale.net/blog/backandforth/ http://gonzale.net/blog/backandforth/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:14:30 +0000 Charlotte Gonzalez http://gonzale.net/blog/?p=1493 For new years, i got a brand new flatmate !

Back to Paris for a week to shoot the music project of Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano and Moritz Von Oswald…

And…

Back to Beirut.

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short entry i know, but i don’t want to show too much :)

now i’m back in Lebanon for a little while (i’ll be in paris next week though, have to take photos for Warp Records)

]]> http://gonzale.net/blog/father/feed/ 4 hhhhhhhhhh http://gonzale.net/blog/hhhhhhhhhh/ http://gonzale.net/blog/hhhhhhhhhh/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:11:04 +0000 Charlotte Gonzalez http://gonzale.net/blog/?p=1479 When you’re french, or “occidental”, and you live in Lebanon, and you start speaking arabic to anyone who lives there, they react as if it’s something so great and uncommon (even if you have a low level of arabic). That’s cool. It feels nice to be a foreigner in Lebanon, if you have a minimum of knowledge of their culture.

On the contrary, when an arab comes to France, and lives there, for some reason he has to speak perfect french or he will be despised.

Today i was at the bank in Paris  and a guy came to do some… bank stuff, and he had a big accent and not much vocabulary, and the employee at the bank was very… well. Just imagine a snob/mean face.

A month ago i was at the bank in Beirut to do some bank stuff and mentionned my level of arabic wasn’t good enough to have a serious-business discussion, so… well, the employee spoke to me in french.

In the same spirit :

An occidental person in an arabic country will not consider one second that wearing a short skirt might be offending to some pious local people.

BUT ! In France, a good bunch of people find veils on women’s hair offensive.

Sometimes i wonder who’s tryin to impose its truth on the other.

The occident has been showing off its self proclaimed moral superiority for centuries now, and they’re complaining that a group of fucked up minds blow themselves off in our capitals ? They should just try to see the world from a different perspective and see what they’ve done.

Our enemies are ourselves, and only ourselves.

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In Paris now, totally uninspired by this city…

Going back to Beirut on the 17th.

Happy new year :)

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