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ABANDONED SHOES

Friday, 29 February 2008

56. São Paulo: R. Marconi 10:47 01/07/2007

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1. São Paulo: R. Araújo 22:32 06/04/2007


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23. São Paulo: Av. Ipiranga 12:18 13/05/2007


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4. São Paulo: Av. Ipiranga 12:27 01/07/2007


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6. 4. São Paulo: R. Mj. Sertório 16:53 14/07/2007


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8. São Paulo: Ed. Copan Bloco B 09:06 25/06/2007


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11. São Paulo: Av. Paulista 11:16 27/06/2007


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What's this all about?

When I arrived in São Paulo in 2003 one of the first things that caught my attention was the number of shoes abandoned in the streets. I felt there was a certain poetry embodied in these artifacts that presented somebody’s absence. They also led me to question how they had got there; who had left them; why?

I began to photograph the abandoned shoes that I encountered on my wanders in the city. Now I have a collection of more than 50 photos of these shoes. I want to share these abandoned shoes with the aim of finding them a new home. I would like people to ‘adopt’ a shoe. In adopting a shoe you give it a new home, a new meaning - using the image as inspiration for some creative act, be it a story, a poem, a song, a picture, a piece of dance, theatre, or a short film.

Choose a picture of a shoe, be creative with it and then send the result to me at: diabolodan@hotmail.com.

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