I think this shot would have a bigger impact with only the passport and the fortune cookies and the fortune strips, great idea, I do like the emphasis on the immigrant theme.
Looks pretty conceptual, though I don't get it completely. It would be better if not just the title but the picture itself also suggested that the owner of the passport/cookies was to be picked for something (to me the race brings different associations). GC
very clever .. I was thinking of doing something like this .. you've done a great job. But the photo looks a little dull (lacking life) ... if you have a photo editing software it would be nice if you made the colors pop out a bit more (ie. the white would be whitter .. blue bluer .. ect) .... but great shot .. and definatelly meets the challenge.