Neighborhood Between City Wall And Ocean is a photograph by Sandra Pena de Ortiz which was uploaded on February 8th, 2013.
Neighborhood Between City Wall And Ocean
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Neighborhood Between City Wall And Ocean
Artist
Sandra Pena de Ortiz
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Photograph - Photography
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This photograph was taken with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG Macro Tele Zoom Lens for Canon EOS Cameras. The intention of the artist is to highlight the paradoxical location of the suburban neighborhood known as La Perla at the City of Of San San in Puerto Rico. Note the three small three houses and the conditions around them, "jailed" between the old city wall, seen in blur at the bottom foreground in order to increase perspective, and the ravid Atlantic Ocean, which at least provides the residents with the best view of this side of its cost, enjoy the sound of the waves, the wind, and the immensity of blue ... As you can imagine, in order to shoot this photograph I had to literally climb one step so as to obtain the view that is seen here. This magnificent high and long wall runs up the Norzagaray street in the city. More specifically, the city wall stretches or about 650 yards 600 along the rocky coast of the Atlantic Ocean immediately east of the Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery and down up the slope north of the Norzagaray street. Residents of La Perla at Old San Juan mostly have to live in poor old houses. Most Puerto Ricans and tourists today consider La Perla, the paradox of the beautiful city of Old San Juan, which is so full of splendor, interrupted in a rather dramatic fashion by the presence of neighborhood. La Perla is a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor situated on both sides of the northern historic city wall. However, before making any judgements or naming La Perla with condemning adjectives, one must know its roots. La Perla was established in the late 19th century. Perhaps, as a premonition of what it would eventually become, the area was the site of a slaughterhouse because Spanish law required these as well as the homes of former slaves and homeless non-white servants, to be established away from the main community center. That is, outcasted and outside the city walls, as it still remains today. These facts have been intertwined in time. Today, those unaware or insensitive of this history, sadly not a small number, consider the beautiful oceanfront and secluded location the main reasons for the high level of drug related activities in the area. However, think what if things had been different under Spain's rule over the region? What if proper housing, education, and socio-economic justice for La Perla soon or at any time after Puerto Rico became a US territory? Isn't also paradoxical that is is called "La Perla", which literally mean the pearl, or was the name established sarcastically? I wonder all these things and ask: what if ...
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February 8th, 2013