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of Suharto in 1998, the country has become more open to Chinese culture, and many of the discriminative laws have been rescinded.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)
• 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)
  • 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)
  • Cropping off the traffic sign greatly improves the image IMO. 81.132.196.225 (talk) 00:54, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
    • 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)
      • 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)
        • 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)
      • 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)
        • Then, again, we must agree to disagree. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:25, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

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