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To: bentway who wrote (44196)	11/6/2005 5:04:34 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 306849

Further castigation. Re-read my origin post to you. I challenge you to find any hint of castigation there. You are reading it in where it isn't. Must have hit a nerve. Obviously I did. Sorry, it was totally unintentional. Is it your mission in life to correct those in error? No, I already have a full time job. I've found the fears of the hoi polloi to be mostly baseless. Fears that the unwashed masses have or fear that people have of the unwashed masses? Your sentence is unclear. I assume from the context, you mean the latter. Oh for sure, the very real dangers that this kid had to face daily were mostly to him and people like him who didn't have the means to escape from that sprawling slum. They feasted on each other. The relatively rich tourist from the states, who could afford to stay in a place with security, probably wouldn't even be aware of the daily violence any more than a visitor to our Inner Harbor is aware of the murder rate a few blocks away in the projects. Cities that live on the tourist trade are pretty good at putting distance between the hotel zone and the local drug trade. Still, a good friend whose opinion I trust, described Rio as "third world meets jet set and jet set brings a body guard to the beach". He also said, just like in Puerto Rico, his hotel had razer wire on every balcony and an armed guard on every floor. I've never liked staying in places that look like armed camps. A teenager with an uzi makes me a little nervous although I have been compelled to give more than a few muchacho con uzi a ride in my rental car when traveling in Central America and Mexico (who is going to turn them down?). I find myself praying the whole time that my Spanish is good enough....and I'm not particularly religious. I knew many in San Diego that were afraid to go to Tijuana! I've been to TJ many times. It's not my favorite Mexican city, too dirty...but it has it's own type of "charm". It's actually far more interesting, from the view point of a photographer, than San Diego. I find the endless clear blue skies and bland suburban architecture of SD to be less than compelling, too contrived and artificial (that in of itself can be interesting sometimes). Mexico is far more interesting to me in terms of making images, there is always this battle between building and decay, everything there seems to be simultaneously being constructed and destroyed, like civilization itself. I've spent a lot of time down there photographing. The main danger in life is boredom. I'm very rarely bored, my own experience does not confirm this.