let it rain
The night of the floods in Buenos Aires, February 2010.
Posts Tagged ‘villa crespo’
the view from my window
This is a photo from the summer. We live on a pretty lively street corner. I’m amazed at how fearlessly boys play soccer in the streets with the traffic. This was shot for a series called Soccer On Holiday for the June issue of Norman Einstein’s Magazine.
i heart my neighborhood, part iv
Along with the many mechanics of my neighborhood, we have a plethora of rusting cars all over the streets. It is one of the reasons why I moved into this neighborhood. I have a thing for rusting cars. These three cars sat at the end of my street for the first month I was there, [...]
mechanic central
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June 21, 2010 Comments OffMy neighborhood is about 60 percent mechanics. A lot of the old-school workshops have trenches in the ground where the mechanics go to work on the chassis, rather than having a lift of some sort. Ingenious.
i heart my neighborhood III
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April 15, 2010 Comments OffWe had the ultimate find the other night, a restaurant just two blocks from our apartment! It is only open on the weekends, so that could possibly explain why I’ve never noticed it before. It’s called Il Vero Mangiare, and when you walk in one of the sons (family-owned) is standing at a station by [...]
i heart my neighborhood II
I love this photo for so many reasons. Mostly because of the dog. Secondly, because it was taken in such darkness, and you know how much I love night photography. Third, it has both my roommates in it. And fourth, inside that rusted out shell of an automobile on the right lives a man who [...]
feel the noise
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March 27, 2010 Comments OffI don’t know how much I’ve told you about my neighborhood but it is, for the most part, chill. I live by a large, walled cemetery (photos to come, you know it!) in the middle of a netherworld consisting of solely auto-body shops and their suppliers. All of the businesses shut down from about 2-4 [...]
i heart my neighborhood
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March 11, 2010 Comments OffWhen I first moved into this house, there was this big trash pile on the corner filled with building supplies. The trash collectors come EVERY NIGHT to pick things up, but they ignored the pile for about two weeks. Then one day it vanished. I had this idea to take a picture of my corner [...]
meat market
Next to the verduleria (vegetable stand) near my house, there is this abandoned market. One side is open where there is a snack bar. Empty stands line the perimeter of the big room, and everything is fading and peeling and withering away. Imagine my surprise when I went to buy some vegetables the other day [...]
back to school
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March 7, 2010 Comments OffKids went back to school this week. Here is a photo of parents waiting to get their kids at the school in my neighborhood. The kids all wear these big white overshirts over their regular clothes as their uniform. It makes them all look like little pharmacists in lab coats.