20th August 2007
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20/08/2007
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this shot should really be named after the person who's face has been stencilled. problem is, i don't know who it is. i'm assuming it's someone famous, maybe even infamous, but they've obviously passed me by. oh well, this was on a wall by the tram tracks outside of the gmex car park in manchester.

UPDATE
after looking around online i've discovered that this is in fact tenzin delek - a tibetan monk who was sentenced to death, then life imprisonment, in china for a crime that he claims he did not commit. apparently he's seen as a threat to china's control of tibet and did not receive a fair trial or an independent lawyer. and here's me thinking it was just some movie star...
this shot should really be named after the person who's face has been stencilled. problem is, i don't know who it is. i'm assuming it's someone famous, maybe even infamous, but they've obviously passed me by. oh well, this was on a wall by the tram tracks outside of the gmex car park in manchester.

UPDATE
after looking around online i've discovered that this is in fact tenzin delek - a tibetan monk who was sentenced to death, then life imprisonment, in china for a crime that he claims he did not commit. apparently he's seen as a threat to china's control of tibet and did not receive a fair trial or an independent lawyer. and here's me thinking it was just some movie star...