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The destruction of the mountains of the state of Minas Gerais caused by uncontrolled mining. A synthesis of the destruction of Planet Earth by capitalism.
I call this 'capitalism' as this depicts the world we live in today. Many sad people who are having difficult times keeping up with the cost of living today. Many holding multiple jobs to keep a roof over their heads. What has become of us. Taken in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Wonderland sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. I went inside the sculpture to get this view. It's a female face.
It is not possible for me to talk about Thanksgiving in a way that ignores the responsibility the US government has yet to take for the continued persecution against our Natives. Thanksgiving is based on a fallacy in America and, at best, is celebrated by being honest about history and being politically active in voting for candidates who support human rights. That said, Thanksgiving, like any major holiday, is a shared experience and a landmark as it is a way of demarcating time and humans do love to have those boundaries set. It helps us organize our memories into the cabinet drawers of our brains. It is also often a time when we think of loved ones near and far even if we don’t see them or even reach out to them. People can be present while still alive only as ghosts and Thanksgiving is one of those times when we can make them more present if we choose to. Sometimes, it’s merely forgiveness that is needed and remembering a sense of shared experiences. Most people also have the day off from work so they have more time on their hands to reflect on things, which can be exciting or uncomfortable, depending on what it is you’re considering.
Black Friday, much like what motivates most of the world, is the day after Thanksgiving and is all about economics. People shop for deals and typically the downtown Chicago area is more than flooded. It has been a pleasant 50 degrees Fahrenheit these past few days and the only thing Americans love more than capitalism is global warming so there were more people out and about on the street. Instead of shopping, I took my parents first to an arcade on an off hour when it wasn’t very busy on Friday and then yesterday downtown to see art. I haven’t really had the urge as much to photograph people in terms of street photography lately aside from Halloween related parades and portraits but the light was so beautiful and I wanted to take portraits of my mother so I already had lugged my camera equipment with me on the El downtown. I was glad I was able to capture the shared experience of capturing people in the city after the come down of excitement of a ubiquitous event. There’s something different about the shared atmosphere that is hard to explain but I think it comes down to the idea that no matter what race, religion, or cultural background we come from, there is more that unites us than separates us. And, if we remembered this each time we stepped outside our doors, we might make some better choices every day going forwards. Either way, we must be honest with ourselves about the past if we want to have a different future.
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Hanford, Ca.
And, on the day before Thanksgiving, I tender my suggestion for objects for which we are grateful.
Merry Thanksgiving all.
Definition: a small elite securing and extracting ("raking in") an excessive slice of the economic cake without investing in the common good. In the UK, this has created a high-inequality, high-poverty cycle. This cycle is the responsibility of the British Tory Party and, consequentially, the rake ought to be its visual signature - not the tree. Fuji X-Pro1, 7Artisans lens at F16 plus a 16mm macro extension tube.
Capitalism is one thing - greed and lust for power, is mostly the
same.
Control the billionaires !
An Abstraction,
made with stable diffusion,topaz and photoshop.
I am in agreement with most ethical photographers in NOT making the homeless an object for exploitative photography. However, I made an exception in this case for two reasons: one, the justaposition of the homeless man with the Sephora store expressed an important failure of American inequality that seems indifferent to the lives of the very poor and; two, because homelessness in American cities is really reaching a breaking point. We, as photographers, have a contribution to make in this vital discussion.
I have been off flickr for a few years. I am trying to revive this account in order to better organize, archive my various photography/printing projects. So pardon the “work in progress” as I clean up and get things updated. I’m excited to see everyone’s work again :-D and I hope I will be motivated to keep this up! I’m still on insta, but it just doesn’t cut it when it comes to archives and organization.
This is an image from my project Aftermath.
Aftermath is a photography series I created during the pandemic, using a range of experimental techniques to explore the human condition in times of crisis. By employing methods such as film soup, developing color film with black-and-white chemistry, and innovative and alternative darkroom printing, I aimed to reflect the uncertainties and disruptions of the era. The work delves into themes of resilience, vulnerability, and the broader existential challenges posed by capitalism, offering a layered social commentary on our shared experiences during turbulent times.
The name Trabant in German means “satellite” or “companion” and was inspired by the Soviet Sputnik satellite. In the East Germany was en-vogue the communism. Not the real one, but the one replicated in the furniture style, in the broken-down automobiles and inside the shopping bags. (The real socialism has become a capitalism product as anything else). As far as the ruling Communist party was concerned, the Trabi was good enough. They drove decent Soviet Volgas, so they weren’t concerned with what common ppl drove. The engineers, though, they did give a shit and they engineered the steel unibody (with Duroplast body skins) Trabant P50 in secret and were able to get it into production just because they only told the Head Commies about it when it was done.
But to raise the myriad issues with East Germany's people's car is to miss the point, for the importance of the Trabant transcends its worthiness as an automobile. The intense struggle to design and turn out these cars in a country so paranoid to have built a real and ideological wall at its border shows how perseverance and a willingness to think outside the box helped a group of ambitious engineers to overcome enormous hurdles and preserve the right to free thought.
Jeremy Renner - Main Attraction
Fizzing with colour
Saturation pollution
Capitalisms spectrum calling to attention
Night is bright within stone paving
Brighter than the morning
Hanford, Ca.
They were preparing for a parade, but the streets were still empty. A few of these mobile vendors were walking the streets hoping to make a sale. I have the utmost respect for these folks, many of whom are immigrants. They struggle to make ends meet and engage in business or labor as best they can. Their dreams may be large, but the reality is a whole lot grittier.
• Flock cameras photograph your license plate and bumper stickers when you are traveling, shopping, visiting friends in your car.
• Facebook gathers information about your beliefs, hopes and fears. This information is sold to whoever will pay for it.. They feed you the news they want you to see.
• Instagram shows you images it wants you to see in order to persuade you to believe what it wants you to believe.
• Google search tracks you wherever you go on the internet and sells that information to whoever is willing to pay for it. You are not Google's customer. If you are a Google user, you are the raw material that Google harvests.
• Your cellphone tracks your location wherever you go, knows how long you were there and tracks your exact location in buildings, on the water, in the air, under the ground.
This information is used to sway you to the benefit of billionaires. This is done without our knowledge or permission and often against the law. It is not inevitable. We can fight back. We must demand our right to privacy. We have a right to sanctuary.
Bucharest / Wallachia / Romania
Album of Romania: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157711998...
Street Photography in Havana, Cuba. I like the juxtaposition of the USA stars & strips shorts against the backdrop of the Cuban flag street art and the image of Che Guevara. What would Che say...
Here is a blog I have written on my website with more Cuban Street Portraits, check it out:
www.geraintrowland.co.uk/blog/2017/12/12/street-portraits...
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This county went 80% Trump. The downtown mainstreet is 4 blocks long. 80% of buildings are vacant. There is a bank, hardware,post office,bar and laundry mat. There have been 3 fires started in vacant buildings in the last 1.5 years.There is a very very profitable steel mill 2 miles away that had increased revenues of 7.7 billion dollars in 2016 and still enjoys tax abatements. No unions in the county..