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Girl With Veil

I was walking down the Atocha Ave. in Madrid and I saw this particular movie poster, it was weird because we had this kind-of muslim "Pietà", and at the same time there's the reflection of a well known building, which is a typical construction made at the beginning of the XX century in Spain. To me is an image of the new world we live, there's these big cosmopolitan cities who has a lot of people from all over the world living in the same place. In this case the picture represent the middle east crashing in a very smooth way on to western civilization.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 05.2013
Date Uploaded: 10.2014
Photo Location: Madrid, Spain
Camera: COOLPIX S3300
Copyright: © Mauricio Sanhueza