Socio Political Rants.
I occasionally photograph images of interesting "Signs." Some of them is because of the graphic, others is because the history and reason for the sign (such as remnants of SARS), others because it’s so culturally specific (elephants, carts, cemetery candles). But my main interest in them is that they subconsciously and consciously infringes on (generally) public space modifying people’s behaviors. Like Foucault said, the trajectory of punishment and control was to be mapped on our minds and not on our bodies.
But surfing through the NY Times the other day. I came across this. It was the opposite from the usual power relations, as this was outside a hospital in Congo. The signs says everything that needs to be said about the civil war there, or possibly any war anywhere.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/weekinreview/20lacy.html?hp">Beyond the Bullets and Blades</a>
Guillaume Bonn for The New York Times
Victims
of killers with machetes, and of the diseases their rampages set loose,
have been treated at the rudimentary hospital run by Doctors Without
Borders in Bunia, in eastern Congo.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 