Hello, John Thomson

Every once in awhile, everything falls into place - the people you encounter, the images you see.

John Thomson was a Scottish photographer in the late 1800s who documented Formosa (and other Asian countries) in the day of aboriginal tribes, new immigrants from China, etc. These are the sorts of pictures that do not exist in family photo albums, these are the images I have been looking for - and they were in a photographic exhibition right in the middle of the World Trade Center at the Taipei International Book Fair.