Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Ali R. Photography, Images # 47, 48, "Fantasy" and "Untitled"



Looking at the past few days of postings, you might have noticed that billboards are about icons and brands.  Few words are used.  They sell fantasy, places you rather be instead of working 9-5 every day, buying products that could transform you into "them," and adventures that you cannot afford.  It's all good news though.  Up there everyone and everything look happy.  Yet, down below, we live the hardest time this country has experienced in a long time.  People are hurting and their messages in the form of graffiti and posters turn the walls of our cities into their diaries.  As I said before, one is encouraged and another is criminalized.

 

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