Photo post: Napoli, city streets
In official government press and tourist-centred websites and all the way down to postcards, photographs of historic Piazzas and monuments in Napoli are retouched to remove their omnipresent graffiti. After years of being an urban exploration geek, I kind of find it a shame. The ugly tags are a part of the vibrant place, a stark and brightly coloured 'we still live here' in the face of thousands of years of architecture we're used to thinking of as dead.
The set is growing daily at flickr here if you want to see more before I finish up or post the other vague categories. I intend to post the Subterranean Napoli aqueducts/cisterns/bomb shelters/catacombs tour here separately, and the boats and waterscapes as well.
How my photographic style manages to make even the bustling chaos of Napoli look mostly abandoned, I can't say. But I shouldn't have been so surprised once I noticed.