Juan Tapias

Visual Storyteller & Documentary Photographer - Architect
       
La puertas de Babilonia
Public Project
La puertas de Babilonia
Copyright Juan Tapias 2024
Updated Jun 2023
Topics Architecture, Art, Arts, Community, Conceptual, Conservation, Culture, Culture stories, Documentary, Editorial, Essays, Feature, Historical, History, Landscape, Photography, Portraiture, Street, Travel, World heritage
Summary
Cartagena, a vibrant city in Colombia, stands proud and preserved as in its best days as a colonial port that at the time was of great importance to merchants and pirates who besieged it with complete cruelty. Its cobbled streets and colonial walls become a captivating threshold, where the inside and the outside intertwine their stories and bring them to the present as a virtual reality.
A constructed metaphor of the past and the present.
Colombia, 2020

Cartagena, a vibrant city in Colombia, stands proud and preserved as in its best days as a colonial port that at the time was of great importance for the merchants and pirates who besieged it with total brutality. Its cobblestone streets and colonial walls become a captivating threshold, where the inside and the outside intertwine their stories and bring them to the present as a virtual reality.

The gates of Babylon stand majestically, like immutable guardians of a vast urban labyrinth. Like a photographic image, they capture the spirit of the city in a single moment, revealing the constant swing between inside and outside.

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