Taken during my December 2024 Orchestral Tour to China with the Symphonique des Bords de Loire, in Yong Zhou, Hunan Province. With one letter change, this could have been very funny…

Yong Zhou, Hunan Province — December 2024 orchestral tour with the Symphonique des Bords de Loire. Street photography on tour is opportunistic and quick: the X100F stays in your pocket, and you shoot the thing that makes you stop mid-stride. The Luckin Coffee sign needed one careful letter change to be very funny indeed. Monochrome was the obvious choice — it is, after all, a graphic image at heart. See the China series on China — How a Journey Transforms a Man on IJM Photography.