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Showing posts with label martin roemer. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

martin roemer . . .

Roemers’s series “Metropolis,” is a documentation of cities with populations over ten million. Roemers created pictures that convey not only the mass and energy of megacities but also the humanity of the individuals living in them. 

Istanbul. A demonstration by socialists and communists passes through Taksim Square, holding up traffic.

Dhaka. Street vendors sell their wares below a pedestrian bridge at dusk with rickshaws passing in the foreground at a busy street market.

Calcutta. A hand-drawn richshaw wallah stands beside an old Ambassador taxi on Madan Street.

Manila. A market in a slum next to Manila’s harbour.

Cairo. A crowd gathers to look at camels being sold in a specialist market in Giza.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth#ixzz27147B6TF