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Telexpo 2006 in Brazil, bringing the web closer to Bolivia

And what do you know? Linked below this post is a website telling about the gathering of telecommunicationg companies for the Telexpo 2006 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Not at all that far from Bolivia. For people fluent in castilliano here is the glossy telecom-company page. It seems like two different worlds when I think of the potato-farmer and his daughters in the Andes. Outside their hut made of homemade mud-bricks she proudly eyed me up, when i came rambling across the field with my camera. Since I could not speak neither quechua nor aymara, not to mention castilliano I tried to make our guide tell her that her father was growing potatoes in much the same way as my grandfather did. The situation was somewhat odd, and I do not quite like to think about what I would have answered the photographer if it was a campesino (a person from the rural area) of Bolivia who suddenly would have appeared in OUR potato-field with a long-lensed goggle-eyed camera... The encounter however resulted in one of my most memorable photos from the trip to Bolivia and I have posted it on the Argonautica Photo-Blog.

posted by "Amira" @ 8:55 AM