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Street Art, Antwerp

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Street Art, Antwerp
“Street Art, Antwerp” — An old structure is decorated with street art along the waterfront in Antwerp, Begium.

The photograph comes from Antwerp. We were in Belgium at the end of May and beginning of June. Adding Belgium to a trip that was mostly in Portugal and Spain was a bit of an afterthought, but we managed to stay in Antwerp, Bruges, and Brussels, and make a day trip to Ghent. It was a lot to see in one week, and with more time we might have spent extra days in Antwerp and Brussels.

On the day that I made this photograph we headed out on one of our typical wandering walks. It took us towards the waterfront, where it appears that some sort of long term redevelopment project is underway. An urban walkway traverses much of the area, but there’s also still a certain amount of interesting street art.

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Photographs: Germany, Photographs: Travel, Photographs: Urban/Street

Blue Shirts, Wall

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Blue Shirts, Wall
Two men in blue shirts at the East Side Gallery, Berlin

Blue Shirts, Wall. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Two men in blue shirts at the East Side Gallery, Berlin.

Berlin’s “East Side Gallery” is a section of the Berlin Wall — which has been entirely removed in almost all other areas — that was turned into a sort of street art exhibit, with all sorts of artists adopting sections of the wall and creating a kaleidoscope of wildly diverse imagery. We were in Berlin for a few days in 2018, and one day we walked over this direction.

I’m often a bit confused about how and even whether to photograph street art. One problem is that making photographs of the creative work of others feels a bit shallow at times. Another problem is that with some kinds of tagging that verge on vandalism, the photographer can feel complicit by sharing the tags more widely. (By the way, tagging is rampant in areas of Berlin that we visited, and some of the familiar American ground rules — such as not tagging homes — are regularly ignored there.) But sometimes photographing the work of others makes sense, and here I decided to mostly focus on the other people there to see the work. Once I did that I began to see a lot of striking coincidences and relationships — such as this pair of men wearing blue shirts and walking in front of this wildly detailed section of the wall.

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