“MONUMENT is a series of photographs documenting Samatzai’s most unexpected inhabitants. The families we met were incredibly warm and generous, but from the outside you get the feeling of being within a fortress-city: each home is guarded behind a high stone wall and iron gate. There is a deep conservatism to the community; a sense that the streets are only used when absolutely necessary. There are no cars, no loitering youth, no advertisements. However, there are penises. Many of them. Spray-painted, scratched and scribbled onto walls, doors and streets signs, these are the sole occupants of Samatzai’s neglected streets. Apparently the penises have always been there, though no one admits to being responsible. I found over twenty of them - each one unique in size, shape and style. This is not the work of a lone vandal; this is a secret community project. It was fairly shocking to find these profanities (which I had previously associated with teenage suburbia) all over this rural Catholic community, but perhaps the rocket-ship-penis is just one of humanity’s fundamental images. Perhaps it’s even vital”
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