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Garbage Truck, Aleppo  
   

Garbage Truck, Aleppo

...and Places of Syria

October 11th 2009
For more of my photos, or to buy my book, please visit www.nickkembel.com At the time that the events of the New Testament were taking place, the earliest written records of Damascus and Aleppo were already 2500 years old. Evidence suggests that these two cities have been continuously inhabited for as long as 8000 years, making them the oldest ... read more
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20th August 2012

misleading shots..
with all respect,but you captured a certain part of Syrian life and ignored the other more modern part,women in Syria may wear headscarfe or may not,you can find both ,and not all men wear that head cloth,it's not a tradition in the cities,it's more like a traditional outfit of small towns..bus stops are more organised when you go a bit further from the city towards suburbs..and We have Big garbage trucks in Syria!! this one you photographed was a small one obviously for some a freelancer cleaning poor man in a poor suburb..
21st August 2012

re_misleading shots
I understand your comment, but I also did not think so much about what to photograph. I just arrived in Syria, visited the famous old markets of Damascus and Aleppo, and took pictures of what I thought was beautiful. Of course people who are dressed more traditionally stand out more to me (just like all travel photographers), so I am more likely to take pictures of them. As for the garbage, well, as a photographer I think that something 'ugly' can actually be beautiful! Once again, I think it would be boring to take a picture of boring, modern looking garbage trucks or bus stops!

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