Electrical issues, Rio de Janeiro, 2010 by Phil Douglis

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18-DEC-2010

Electrical issues, Rio de Janeiro, 2010

These meters record the electricity used by a group of homes in one of Rio’s crowded favelas. My wideangle image stresses the nightmarish complexity of connections in detail here. The imagination can only guess at what those who maintain and use such wiring must risk.

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Phil Douglis		14-Jun-2016 03:24
Who else makes pictures of the ingenious and perhaps even risky or illegal wiring within a Rio favela but you-know-who? Your interpretation is wonderful, Marisa. You leap from the subject to the invisible users, and project a pageant of vibrant life flowing from within this image, all through your own vivid imagination. Thank you.

Marisa Taddia		13-Jun-2016 23:16
Your photo takes me on a journey of imagination ... I let go through each of those little light meters, imagining the houses light up their rooms, decorated furniture, plants found inside and hanging from the windows, animals that have been integrated into family life and, above all, the lives of human beings that inhabit them. What will be their stories, their past, their dreams... ? How would connect those lives with those of their neighbors, who are represented here perhaps with the numbers 6 and 10... Again... 6 and 10... who they were, who are and who will be ?

Phil Douglis		24-Mar-2011 19:47
Wonderful comparison, Tim. The tangle of wires is a metaphorical extension of the concept of a favela itself, a community of winding, often tangled thoroughfares, charged with energy and often combustable.

Tim May		23-Mar-2011 21:08
The tangle of wires in the upper portion of the image evoke the tangle that is a favelas.

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