Thomas Locke Hobbs

Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm an American photographer living in Buenos Aires. These are photos from the blog I kept on my site from 2003 to 2009. I now have redesigned the home page to just show a portfolio of my current work. I also blog at BuenosAiresPhotographer.com where I post my baires snapshots.

 

Post Modernism without the Irony

A lot of new apartment towers in São Paulo have this neo-classical detailing. I don´t think the residents who move in have ever heard the name Philip Johnson. I suspect, instead, that they just think it looks cute.

Crackolandia

Here´s a tall and spectacularly run-down building in the heart of Luz, once the belle epoque center of Paulista high society. That was 100 years ago. Now the area is known by the less flattering name, "Crackolandia". I was there to visit the old train station and art museum but I ended up taking pictures of run-down buildings.

Prato Feito

Most days I eat what´s called a prato feito [literally "made dish"] of chicken, rice and beans for $1.50.

Vitamina de Açaí

In the afternoon I usually have a smoothie made with açaí, a type of dark, tropical berry. The resulting mix looks like crude oil but tastes delicious.

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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Hi. I'm a 33 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.

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