The quarter of La Boca in Buenos Aires is famous for its blue-and-yellow-wearing football club of Boca Junior, but also for its colourful open air street museum: Caminito.
This area became derelict in the middle of the 20th century, and has subsequently been redecorated by a local artist. The work took him several years. It has since been colonised by artists who expose their art in the street, as well as theatre and tango lovers.
This is the quarter of more: more colours, more derelict but quaintly decorated houses, more bustle and more tourists watching the tango dancers…
When visiting, brace yourself for an assault of colours. Although – or rather because - the quarter is extremely photogenic I found myself over-loaded with possibilities. After a while I realised that it just wasn’t possible to photography it all. Instead, I decided to concentrate on smaller details. These photographic excerpts are only tiny pieces of this quarter, yet they tell a lot about what this is about.
