One of the strangest things was the roads. Wide, multi-lane highways were completely empty. There were no cars. Children played in the middle of the highway as if it were their front yard.
It looked like a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie. Massive infrastructure without people. I took a series of shots where kids ran on asphalt that should have been filled with traffic.
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“It’s dangerous!” the guide said when he saw me shooting. But there was no danger from cars. The danger was that this frame revealed the country’s economic collapse.
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My archive grew. Thousands of shots. Each one was a small act of rebellion. I realized that if I were caught with these memory cards at the border, I could be arrested for espionage.