Another very beautiful series of black and white photos, I'm like you, I like black and white and that's been the case since I was on hive. The photo of the telephone booth is interesting with the wall behind it which has also already been well worn. I have fun mixing color with black and white, adding a point of color to black and white. Light being the crux of the matter, not having much at the moment, I took my photos between two showers. Thank you for your photos which I always enjoy looking at.
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Thank you very much for stopping by and appreciating my work @cyboule friend... Certainly the eloquence of black and white is something nice to exploit... That photo of that phone on that wall dying, has a sad story... You can see it (in Spanish) at my response to a comment from my friend @gatubela in this same post...
But here is the story also translated into English for you:
That is one of the telephones that Digitel (a private local telephone operator) placed in the late 90s on the facades of the town's grocery stores. So, in these stores, they sold prepaid cards for calls and one could use the telephone (which had a satellite connection by the way) to talk there. The owner of the supply received profits for selling the cards and a percentage for the consumption of calls from the unit installed in his premises. I think it was a Digitel project to improve communications in rural areas... I photographed it on the wall of a grocery store that belonged to Mr. Osorio, who by the way died of a heart attack when in 2015 or 2016 (the time of the great food shortage in Venezuela) some corrupt officials of the national guard confiscated all the artisanal corn flour that he had to sell and which was the product of his own planting... Since then the supply closed, his widow died of diminished and the sons left the town... A regrettable thing, because Mr. Osorio was a great kind person. But that's yet another story about how tainted our society is thanks to a quarter century of overly corrupt rulers in power... (And we have little hope that this will change for the better)...
Greetings and happy day to you! ;)
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Thank you for this long response which allowed me to better understand the history of this phone which is in fact the only survivor of Mr Osorio's misfortunes. Corruption is a scourge even if they say that in my country there is none, in fact it hides well and when it reveals itself to everyone. The people involved are punished less than the little pasta thief.
The embezzlement of public funds by a multi-million euro perpetrator costs less in terms of legal sanctions than the theft of food from a store. And why because it is the politicians who embezzle the majority of public money and it is they who vote for the laws which punish all types of theft.