From a series illustrating the interaction between people and street art in urban settings.
Continue readingUrban Ballads, Bogota
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Bogota Day-sleeper
Even in the middle of the day, a person doesn’t have to sleep alone on the street in Bogota.
Continue readingFire on the Mountain, Bogota
It’s not every day that a fire breaks out on a mountain just as you click the shutter for a long exposure.
Continue reading“I don’t want to be here anymore.” – Bogota Taxi Driver Monologues
I stepped into the cab at the intersection of Carrera 10 and Calle 4, one of Bogota’s many blurred frontiers between civility and third world urban reality. In heavy traffic, it’s about a 15 to 20 minute ride to the skyscrapers and modern high-rise apartments and shopping malls of the centro internacional to the north,… Continue reading
Leaving Cali
There are three toilet stalls in the men’s room of Cali’s Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport’s international departures terminal, none of which have toilet seats. But one of the police rooms just beyond security has a state of the art x-ray machine through which one can see virtually every orifice of the human body. From my… Continue reading