Archive | September, 2007

10 September 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Meeting the Little Family

What a great day! Saturday was my first excursion to the south of the province of Buenos Aires. Maria Little (my teacher and friend) invited me to spend the afternoon with her family in the suburb of Banfield. Rather than taking a bus, train, and another bus as I had done many times to visit [...]

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10 September 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Rugby World Cup 2007

Coming in a distant second after soccer, rugby is a very popular spectator sport in Argentina. The national teams is Los Pumas and uses the same white and sky blue colors as the Argentine flag. The popularity of rugby, like polo, comes from the English influence in the early settlement of the country. Thus, the [...]

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10 September 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Photographing Kids in Abasto

After leaving the Bodies exhibition, I had about an hour and a half to walk before meeting up with Maria downtown. Not having any specific shooting objective, I decided to scour the streets of the Abasto neighborhood for photo opportunities. After walking a mere block, I came upon Carlos Gardel Avenue, which bears the name [...]

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Human Body Exhibition at Abasto

J.D. and I met late yesterday morning to check out Bodies: The Exhibition. The fascinating aspect of Bodies lies in its presentation. The intricacies of the human body are broken down to individual systems and elements so even someone such as myself with medical naiveté can appreciate its complexity. It presents whole body and bone [...]

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07 September 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Poverty is Relative

The United States is so prosperous that the majority of its citizens have no perspective on how much of the rest of the world lives. Those labeled as poor or “disadvantaged” today lead better lives than even royalty of the past could have imagined. The “poverty” in our nation is often more a figment of [...]

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