Shui
"A Chinese Minority Race". Photographed by TANISLimited edition photography book
Over 1000 copies was sold and all proceeds was donated to a medical foster home in Beijing, in memory of a young orphan, Mickey who passed away due to the lack of funding for his health condition.
One of China’s 55 minority races. They call themselves water people (shui ren) since the Ming dynasty and have a population of over 430,000. The people of Shui ethnic minority group live in compact communities in the Sandu Shui Autonomous County in Guizhou Province. The Shui people are one of the poorest minorities in one of the poorest provinces in China.
Trotoar
"The Lost Children of Indonesia". Photographed by TANISLimited edition photography book
In collaboration with Wadah Foundation Indonesia, this book was produced to tell a story that recognized dignity as much as suffering. A unique story of survival of unwanted children, abandoned not only by their parents, but also by society.
In Indonesian ‘Trotoar’ means sidewalk. Born too poor to pay for identity registration, these children are without identity cards. They live off the streets, under bridges, by the railway tracks, by riverbanks and among garbage dumps. They perform, beg, scavenge, sell their services, to survive and try supporting their families. Yet, they smile, and from the corner of their eyes, give us an amazing lesson of courage and humility.
A Bright Future
Charity Exhibition at "Art London". Photographed by TANISLimited edition photography prints
Over US$30,000 was raised from the sale and all proceeds was donated to Bluesky Healing Home for the cranial-facial surgery of an orphan boy born with Apert’s Syndrome.
“If a photographer is a painter using a camera in place of a brush
I will paint a child’s forgotten world with shining colors
I will turn the grey blanket of society hiding them from our sight
Into a transparent kaleidoscope of lights
I will drop a few splatters of color into the cracks of their broken childhood
To heal their scars
I will build a bridge of bricks, red, green and yellow
On which they can climb, proud and strong.”