Flower Pots

Flower Pots

Mathare Valley Slum (Nairobi). Most of the people living here inside corrugated-tin shacks, pay rent without receiving urban services as sewage or waste collection while gangs control the few available ones; 60% of the population of this city of more than 3 millions lives in slums and these villages don't appear on the maps. Mathare is already 64 years old
with families renting here since three generations...

Now we go into
The vulnerable realm of an impossible privacy
Constantly threatened and modified
By all that’s happening outside

Rooms as decorated trenches
Of a never-ending battle;
9 square metres where to try
A claustrophobic but worthy independence
Where to keep dignity at low cost

Now focus in the flowerpots;
The picture is a transparent flowerpot
Allowing you to check every corner of these rooms;
Look again:
The dwellers are the flowers.

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Laura Bottaro
13 years ago
Laura Bottaro Artist
e questi fiori...esprimono l'essenza delle loro anime.
Laura Bottaro
13 years ago
Laura Bottaro Artist
mi colpisce "il movimento immobile" in queste straordinarie fotografie, lo sguardo di queste persone è specchio della nostra storia, del vuoto della coscienza umana oltre ogni possibile civiltà.
gabriele vegna
13 years ago
grande lavoro e grande massaggio
isy hoepfner
14 years ago
isy hoepfner Artist
...wow!! Great colours, very expressive photo, I like it, all the best, isy.
jaya  suberg
14 years ago
jaya suberg Artist
super foto!!!
Stefano Canotti
14 years ago
Ottime progetto ben curato molto emozionante
Slava Zhdanov
14 years ago
Slava Zhdanov Artist
Good show atmosphere of poverty and loneliness
maurinomangiapanino
14 years ago
bravo
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Cristina Bazolli
14 years ago
E' un'opera splendida e commovente.
Silvia Logi
14 years ago
Silvia Logi Artist
La dignità dei volti e di queste piccole povere case abbellite comunque dalla cura di un vaso di fiori mi commuove. Sono immagini piene di poesia ed umanità. Grazie. Silvia

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