Contradictions

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Filippo Minelli – spray paint on scrap-yard, Bamako – Mali, 2008

“What I want to do by writing the names of anything connected with the 2.0 life… [on] the slums of the third world is to point out the gap between the reality we still live in and the ephemeral world of technologies.” Photographer Filippo Minelli

h/t Patrick Appel

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  • jane

    Reminds me of random graffiti I saw about Lindsay Lohan on a rock face in the middle of nowhere in Ireland, no other sign of modernity (or graffiti) to be found nearby.