Meet Aldo from Rosario

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I met Aldo in Rosario at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACRo). I knew from the beginning he would not accept that no attention is being paid to him. He seemed pretty easy going, so approaching me was a matter of seconds. He stared at me until I realized that I had to make the next step. I asked him, why a dog like him would loiter around a museum dedicated to modern art? He answered with his honest brown eyes that he wants to make new friends. As it turned out, he is overly attracted by contemporary art (lovers), so the MACRo seems to be the perfect spot for him to hang around.

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Caught in the Act

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Have you ever been photographed while you were photographing? No? Well, I was. Just when I was about to take a picture of the gastronomic scenery along the Plaza Serrano (officially Plazoleta Cortázar) in Palermo Viejo, the girl in the blue jacket photographed me just like that. I never thought it would happen to me because usually it's me that strives through the streets of Buenos Aires snapping everything that's of interest. (; It caught me off guard, but it was fun.

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Edificio Alas in Downtown Buenos Aires

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This office building in Avenida Leandro N. Alem 719 perfectly reflects the architectural style of Early Modernism. Completed in 1950, it was the tallest building in Buenos Aires for almost 50 years. Legend has it that Juan Domingo Perón personally ordered to include a nuclear bunker in the building which he would use in case of war or a coup d'état. But de facto, he never did. Maybe the bunker is yet another urban myth because it doesn't exist nowadays. A bare fact is that in 2009 the Edificio Alas with its 141m (463ft) ranks 20th of the highest buildings in Buenos Aires. Actually, I liked the building on first sight for its futuristic and puristic looks. The Alas Tower could be, as it stands today, from the movie Metropolis or a dystopian fiction novel by George Orwell or Aldous Huxley.

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Female Physicality in the Postmodern Era

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This installation is an exhibit from Catharina Burman's exposition "Corpus". The exhibition showed various parchment paper bodies and photographs representing an intimate female world. The woman's body, its meaning and impression are recurring themes in her art work. Burman is a Colombian artist that currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. The installation has been exhibited in Bogotá at the University of Salamanca (2005) and in Buenos Aires at the Centro Cultural Borges (2008).

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Homeless in Buenos Aires

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Shameful enough, taking photos of homeless people is easy in Buenos Aires because they are so many. Their sheer number is scary and growing relentlessly. Even middle class people are highly threatened with pauperization and homelessness. While only two out of ten Argentinean families are able to put money aside, the rest of the society is living from hand to mouth. Why is all this happening? Well, besides the obvious reasons like the crony economy, huge foreign debts, and four currency reforms within 40 years, it is happening because we don't care enough. We just hope that we will never ever find ourselves in such a dead-end situation. But isn't this like closing the eyes to the reality around us? Isn't homelessness a crime committed by our society against their weakest and poorest? Homelessness is not the problem; it is a symptom of an uncivilized world.

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Being a Street Vendor in Buenos Aires

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I guess street vending is rather a stopgap solution than a plum job. You don't need particular skills or education, what you do need is a convincing smile and vendibles. This sounds pretty easy but I bet there are many obstacles and a lot of hard work involved in selling goods on the streets. It's utterly amazing to see how many street vendors populate the city of Buenos Aires. There is probably nothing you can buy for money that you won't find at their stands. The whole city seems to be one big bazaar. This guy is specialized in selling winter clothing items such as caps, gloves, scarves etc. He definitely needs to change his assortment now cause the time for this stuff is up. Hooray!

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Puerto Madero View Northwards

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The picture offers you a view straight into the second of four docks of Puerto Madero. You are looking northwards to Buenos Aires' city center. In the distance you may recognize the Puente de la Mujer (woman's bridge) but only if your sight is good.
I can't help it but the district of Puerto Madero appears to me like the sleeping beauty in the fairy tale that has not been awoken yet. You rarely see people on the streets and the few you see are mostly tourists. I guess renovation is not enough to create a vibrant new neighborhood. What this area really needs is a good mix of locals, newcomers and last but not least a handful creatively diverse people.

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