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Smashed Bikes #3
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Every city has its own heartbeat, a steady pulse which its citizens step to. There is a certain 'normality' in the way people live their lives in public spaces. This is especially true in a continent like Europe. There are no stray dogs (like in most South American cities), the streets are mostly free of litter, people obey traffic lights signals and park their cars only when and where they are permitted to do so. The buses and trams stick to their timetables. But in the middle of all this order I found something very particular. The bikes I've been photographing represent a rupture of sorts within the public space; A kind of 'urban decoration' which people dare neither to touch nor transform. They lie alone on the street, abandoned and forgotten.
There is a paradoxical function of the bicycle in today's world, on one hand it is promoted as an environmentally friendly, cheap and speedy means of transportation with health related benefices to boot, yet despite of these facts it can often become 'urban garbage'.
Smashed Bikes #3
victorperezp.com/smashed-bikes/
Every city has its own heartbeat, a steady pulse which its citizens step to. There is a certain 'normality' in the way people live their lives in public spaces. This is especially true in a continent like Europe. There are no stray dogs (like in most South American cities), the streets are mostly free of litter, people obey traffic lights signals and park their cars only when and where they are permitted to do so. The buses and trams stick to their timetables. But in the middle of all this order I found something very particular. The bikes I've been photographing represent a rupture of sorts within the public space; A kind of 'urban decoration' which people dare neither to touch nor transform. They lie alone on the street, abandoned and forgotten.
There is a paradoxical function of the bicycle in today's world, on one hand it is promoted as an environmentally friendly, cheap and speedy means of transportation with health related benefices to boot, yet despite of these facts it can often become 'urban garbage'.