Thoughts Paul Choy Thoughts Paul Choy

Lost Possibilities?

This isn’t the most famous door in the world, despite what you might have thought at first glance. Despite living in possibly the safest era in history, the door you are thinking of lies behind layers of iron gates, surveillance cameras, and armed police officers. The question is, why?

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Nature, Abandoned

Patrick stands tall against the backdrop of Mifetu, a small coastal village in Ghana that bears his family's legacy. "My father named this village," he says, with pride and sorrow in equal measure, as he looks at what the village has become.

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Through the Eyes of a Child

In our so-called advanced world of shopping malls and online stores packed to the brim with mass-produced "stuff" manufactured in power-guzzling, environment-polluting factories for those with the wealth to buy them, has consumerism spiralled out of control? When did the things we enjoy become things we buy rather than make?

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Invisible Lines

The story of the Prime Meridian, an invisible line that silently choreographs the dance of time and space across the globe, is a tale of science, power, and intrigue. But standing with one foot in each hemisphere, I wondered whether this arbitrary line of imaginary division has a greater significance in our increasingly divided real world.

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Between Hope and Despair

The Nazis murdered an estimated 1.1 million people in Auschwitz, most within the first few hours of arrival. What intense confusion, fear, and unimaginable brutality must they have experienced on their way to the gas chambers?

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In the Shadows of Humanity

Are there words adequate to describe the emotion of passing through the gates of Auschwitz? Can a photograph truly do justice to the memory of those who met their dreadful end in the gas chambers at the end of the railway tracks? Those were my thoughts as I entered the infamous camp, which left such an indelible stain on 20th-century history.

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Medicine for the Soul

For centuries, millennia even, people have gathered around a single focal point to share stories, sing, chant, make music and celebrate their communities. And yet, as the wheels of time have turned, these ancient practices have faded from memory as digital screens have become our new focal point.

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A Fair Salt

Despite being one of the most essential minerals on our planet, vital for maintaining human life, how many of us have ever considered where the salt we use every day comes from?

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Braving The Storm

Believe it or not, I came very close to leaving Toronto without photographing Niagara Falls. The weather forecast was for heavy rain, and I would need to go at a crazy hour to reach the falls in time for sunrise. But a break in the storm allowed me to experience a moment which will stay with me forever.

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Embracing Simplicity

Ours is a complicated world, so much so that sometimes we see complication even where it doesn't exist. But it was a chance encounter with a fisherman in Madagascar which left me wondering what solutions might be hiding in plain sight if we open our eyes to them.

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Worth A Thousand Words

This photograph, captured in 2013, will always be special to me. It was the first of my photographs to receive a thousand likes on social media, but more than that, it taught me how powerful a photograph could be.

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Willing Prisoners of Port Louis

How many stories could the crumbling walls of the old prison in Port Louis tell? Few would be surprised if they were stories of regret and despair for misdeeds which led to incarceration. More curious is the relief some prisoners must have felt as they entered the prison for the first time. Theirs are the largely untold stories of the willing prisoners who chose prison as an escape from the hardships of the plantations.

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