Bicocca 006

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This new batch of pictures is from a phototrip i took with a friend of mine in the Bicocca area in Milano, an ex heavy-industrial zone converted to university campus and offices. I don't know how the place looks during the day, but at night it's completely deserted, we walked for about 3 hours (from 2100 to 0000) and met no more than 5 people on the streets. The area gives a very strange feeling: huge hi-tech buildings and deserted streets, constantly monitored by private sucurity behind C.C. tv screens.

One little anedocte about the aforementioned security guards:
We were taking pictures at the garage entrance of an office block, i had mounted my tripod in the middle of the causeway (but still on public soil) and i was happily snapping away.
One of this guards (i don't know in the rest of the world, but here in italy private security is usually people that doesn't have enough brain or skill to do any other job, not even in the police) shows up.

The dialogue went more or less like this:

guard: what are you doing?
me: uhmmmm... taking pictures?
guard: do you have an authorization to do this?
me: do i need an authorization?
guard: well, i don't know
guard: you're just taking pictures, right?
me: sure
guard: ok, take your pictures and be gone.

surreal, isn't it?

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