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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty One: Ruins and wrecks: photographing the rusted, busted past > Shutters, Tunis, Tunisia, 2008
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06-NOV-2008

Shutters, Tunis, Tunisia, 2008

The ancient Tunis medina has been thriving for more than a thousand years. It is full of narrow alleys, mosques, markets, and homes – ranging from palaces to crumbling apartments. This dilapidated structure stands at one of the entrances to the medina, its shutters hanging at odd angles, and its façade a home for emerging weeds. I built this image around the diagonal thrust of the broken shutters that carries us through the frame.

Leica V-Lux 1
1/200s f/5.0 at 23.3mm iso400 full exif

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Phil Douglis01-Dec-2008 00:08
Thanks, Tim, for pointing out that eventually all of the well meant amenities of life, such as the once-lovely blue shutters here, will age and die. That was what motivated me to make this image in the way I made it.
Tim May30-Nov-2008 22:13
All dreams die - There is fancy and intentional work here - yet these walls are being lost to weeds and age.
Phil Douglis28-Nov-2008 23:39
Who knows? This place is almost a thousand years old, Carol. I have no idea how long this particular building or these shutters have been part of the scene. I was not afraid of getting hit -- I always stand well away from anything that looks like it may be unstable.
Carol E Sandgren28-Nov-2008 23:02
This precarious looking place makes me not want to stand below and shoot pictures! Still I see it was worth doing it in the longrun. How long do you think those shutters will rest there before crashing to the ground?
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