Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chinese New Year Fashion Show

Chinese New Year Fashion Show

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Original – Students from Yogyakarta State University (which is majority Native Indonesian) put on a Chinese-Javanese fusion fashion show in the lead-up to Chinese New Year in 2015. Under Suharto's new order, the practice of Chinese culture was forbidden by law – including Chinese New Year. Since the fall of Suharto in 1998, the country has become more open to Chinese culture, and many of the discriminative laws have been rescinded.

Reason: High quality image which shows a sociologically important phenomena. This is something you wouldn't have seen fifteen years ago.
Articles in which this image appears: Chinese Indonesians, Discrimination against Chinese Indonesians
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle, maybe?
Creator: — Chris Woodrich (talk)

Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:33, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I find the partial traffic sign a bit distracting; I'm betting on "No Parking" when I should be concentrating on the costume. (It is "No Parking", right?) Belle (talk) 23:52, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- It's a no right turn sign. This show was done in the middle of the street (one of the city's main ones) during a car-free day. That has its own EV right there; these celebrations aren't hidden at all. You hear stories of families celebrating Chinese New Year behind closed doors, but this is open and filled with people. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:09, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Cropping off the traffic sign greatly improves the image IMO. 81.132.196.225 (talk) 00:54, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Way too close a crop. Furthermore, that would lose the evidence of just how open/public the event was. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:06, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - Can you crop it so we can see the whole traffic sign and some spectators etc. Or does that look (technical term coming up; look away if you are not au fait with photo-editing jargon) "crappy"? Belle (talk) 01:12, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      - I was using 160mm effective length; there was barely anything to crop (only some pavement in front of her feet). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - In my view the information value of the traffic sign is negligible, while the negative distraction effect is considerable. 81.132.196.225 (talk) 01:23, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      - Then, again, we must agree to disagree. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:34, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]