In 1985 I had the good fortune to travel to China. At the very start of my photographic career I came back with a few thousand images mostly taken on truly terrible Chinese monochrome film stock. For various reasons this is the first time any of them, apart from a very few, have seen the light of day.
Scanning and retouching these images has been a very poignant labour of love. I wonder what happened to all these people in the intervening years. The poor quality and damaged film has taken days to restore in some cases. It's a strange thing to be using modern software and techniques on images like this when Photoshop was another five years away!
These images and the memories embedded in them mean the world to me.
Part of the trip involved photographing a theatre show so this actually marks the very start of my career as a performance photographer!