The Historian · Bautista · Buenos Aires
Caminito, La Boca
The colours are real history, not decoration: dockworkers painted their tin shacks with leftover marine paint from the ships. Poverty made the palette.
The painted alley of La Boca — a former rail cutting whose corrugated-tin houses tell the story of Genoese dock immigrants.
— Bautista, The Historian
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