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. |
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| 80 year-old, wooden subway cars on Buenos Aires' Subte Linea A. The travel site Bootsnall has an article overviewing BA's subway and more pictures of the wooden cars. Completely unrelated, I found this flickrset of a favela tour of Rochina in Rio. I especially liked this photo, a wide angle shot. I went hang-gliding back in March off the mountains in the background. |
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| The Defense Ministry in Buenos Aires. I was always a little afraid that photographing this building would lead to my disappearance. I like the mansard roof with the Canary Island date palms. |
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| Che Marilyn. Buenos Aires has some great stencil graffiti, as I blogged last March. Expat blogger Line of Sight has a whole category devoted to stencils. Finally, randomly, here's a flickr set of Nicaraguan street murals. |
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| After six months in Brazil I returned for a week to Buenos Aires to see friends and eat steak. This is the Congress building in Buenos Aires. |
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| One last shot of Brazil. This was on the beach at Trinidade, a village near Parati in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Despite my general loathing of the sun and beaches I was won over by this scene from paradise. |
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| Rodoviaria Tiete, Sao Paulo's bus terminal. I left the city for a 33 hour bus ride to Buenos Aires. |
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| Feijoada. Stewed pork, sausage, black beans and other unidentified pork-type things. The tradition in Sao Paulo (perhaps the rest of Brasil?) is to eat feijoada on Wednesdays and Saturdays. |
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| I was watching breakdancers in Parque Ibirapuera one Sunday when four skateboarders dressed as the teletubbies came crashing in and started dancing. I didn't think Tinky Winky was aware of my presence but look again, he's looking right at you. |
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| Peddlers of subway and train passes in front of the Anhangabau station. Apparently there's a secondary market. I always meant to find out more about how it operates, tho I suspect it's some form of implicit social program. |
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| More street art from Sao Paulo. For those of you paying attention to the calendar on the top of the page, I arrived back in New York today. I still have another 2 weeks worth of Paulista photos, a week of Buenos Aires and even a couple of Bogota courtesy of Avianca and a 12 hour layover. Anyway, they're more interesting than the tired NYC Photoblogger-type photos I used to post. Update Jan 2006:This mural is by Os Gemeos, a Brazilian graffiti art duo. There is a Flickr group devoted to Os Gemeos and I also found this 8 page interview with a lot of photos of their work. |
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| In addition to the petroglyph style graffiti, there's also more traditional graffiti murals, especially in the neighborhood of Vila Madalena, where I took this shot. |
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| A pet shop near my house. It's not just hair salons that have murals. Most "typical" stores have murals representing their services. |
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| Largo da Batata (Potato Plaza, in English), near where I lived in Sao Paulo. The area is basically a big bus terminal. |
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| Jaba do Norte. A dried meat typical of the Northeast. There's lots of Northeasterners in Sao Paulo and where I live there are a number of shops catering to regional specialities. |
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| A typical lanchonette will have a display of greasy, usually stale, salty food. I usually order something cooked fresh. |
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| At the end of my street is a bus stop with a lot of camelôs, or peddlers. This one blasts out forró, an accordion-based music from the northeast, all day and night. |
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| A Churrasquinha near my house. I come here sometimes for a kebab of grilled beef of questionable hygiene. |
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| Hotel Unique. Designed by Ruy Ohtake, who also did the Ohtake Cultural that I blogged a month ago. The two pictures below were taken from the posh bar on the roof. |
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 | 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. |