Tag Archives: Brooklyn
Mongo, Adventures in Trash
Mongo, according to the Cassel Dictionary of Slang, is New York lingo for any discarded object that is retrieved. When Ted moved to Manhattan from South Africa, where people constructed homes out of what other considered trash, he decorated his apartment with furniture he found on the streets. Soon he realized he wasn’t the only person finding things of value in the garbage, and he began roaming the streets meeting all kind of collectors, united by their obsession with mongo.
This book (Ted Botha’s Mongo, adventure in Trash) is a record of his travails among the collectors, who are as varied as the kind of mongo they seek. They range from housewife to homeless man, from accountant to computer consultant; from retrenched bank worker to full-time collector. One man finds jewelry in the sludge of New York’s sewers; another has built one of the most extensive rare book collections in the city. The myriad reasons for collecting open a window into the range of human desires: some to make a political statement, others because it is an addiction. Collecting mongo is a longtime, universal phenomenon, and, as the publisher Bloomsbury says, is “at last receiving a worthy literary appreciation”
This photo-essay is the result of an assignment for the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra during the winter 2004.
Black and White Challenge – Day Three
Foto 3 de 7 Fui nominado por Elizabeth Budge Siete días, siete fotos en blanco y negro de tu vida. Sin humanos, sin explicación.
3/7 I’ve been nominated by Regis Cebrian . Seven days. Seven black & white photos of your life. No people. No explanations. Challenge a new friend every day.
“Photographie de la nature – eaux vives” Day Four – Little Twisted Flowers
Christian Rouchouse m’a nomme pour participe au challenge “Photographie de la nature”, “eaux vives” pour les prochaines sept jours, et nommer à chaque publication une personne de son choix.
My friend Christian Rouchouse nominated me to post photos of nature for the next seven days, and to nominated one person everyday.
Quatrieme jour/Day Four:
Interiors
Melting pot – Crisol
Take the M train from Brooklyn to Manhattan, you can see diversity in NYC is not a cliché -This doesn’t mean that there are no tension between communities, but we keep learning how-to live together.
Brooklyn Cliché
Photos of things created by people no. 4
Sharon Dominguez nominated me to post photos of things created by people for the next 7 days.