Las Malvinas
I'm in Buenos Aires shooting a Gatorade ad and yesterday we shot in a grammar school gym. Walking around after a lunch of Meat, Fish and Chicken, I noticed that every classroom had a map of the Malvinas (Falkland Islands) somewhere prominently displayed. I thought it was interesting that this disputed territory would get such premiere billing. So much so that actual maps of mainland Argentina weren't to be found.
I made this one shot my desktop background and uploaded it to Flickr larger than normal if anyone else cares to do the same. It's just a nice simple full-frame mundane shot that contrasts with the heated passions that arise from the mere utterance of "the Falkland Islands" twenty five years after the war. It may make a better square but until I get home, I can't make the mundane diptych I have in mind.
Take pictures.
I made this one shot my desktop background and uploaded it to Flickr larger than normal if anyone else cares to do the same. It's just a nice simple full-frame mundane shot that contrasts with the heated passions that arise from the mere utterance of "the Falkland Islands" twenty five years after the war. It may make a better square but until I get home, I can't make the mundane diptych I have in mind.
Take pictures.
1 comments:
I'm Argentinian and hardly understand why we keep including the Malvinas in Argentina's maps (the mainland maps also have the falkland islands).
I understand that many people who lived during the war (I was just borned) is still hurt for loosing relatives and friends in a specialy senseless war (every war is, actually), and we felt betrayed when Chile helped England during tha conflict.
What's the point of claimming the islands to be Argentinian? The people who live there doesn't want to be Argentinian, they live better being an English colony.
Giving the islands back won't change the past. Thieves will still be thieves, murders will still be murders, betrayers will still be betrayers and dead people will still be in our memories.
(sorry if my ain't that good)
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