How You Look at It

It would be quite possible (and I’m sure it’s been done) to assemble a photo book that makes Buenos Aires look just like Paris. The city’s chock full of pretty vistas like this one, that mix the rugged South American aloe-plant with the European cupid and exquisite mansards.


The thing is, almost nowhere in the city actually looks like that, because when you turn around, here’s what you see.


The crappy modern is inextricable from the elegant past, and you have assume a pretty selection point of view to find a postcard-perfect city. I’ve come to the point that I actually prefer it this way because with every shift of your head, you get a new view, another chance to figure out what the hell this city is really like.