Still life with hair accessories and lucky owls
The apartment photographed here is built out around a stairwell outlet on the rooftop of a colonial-era embassy. A sign posted in the stairwell asks that all of the inhabitants leave so that the government can redevelop the site. The grandfather of the young boy in the photograph was employed by the embassy some sixty years ago and was granted the right to occupy this peripheral space as job perk. He slowly relocated his entire family here. When I asked his son how he felt about leaving he was quiet for a moment then spoke. ‘I was a boy here,’ he says, ‘so naturally, I do not want to leave.’
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