URBANPHOTO: Cities / People / Place

April 21st, 2008

Lisboa: Up, Down, Around

Posted in Photography, Exploring the City, Lisbon, Street Art by Christopher Szabla

The geography of Lisbon bends pespectives - up, down, and around its seven hills. Beyond the occasional slow-swooping streetcar, the dramatic undulations of the city’s streets are broken only by its graffiti, which boldly explodes against pastel-painted houses, or grafts messages - somehow both timely and timeless - deep into centuries-solid walls.

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October 7th, 2007

Summer Nights In Shadowy Streets

Posted in Exploring the City, Streetlife, Lisbon by Christopher DeWolf

Summer nights in Lisbon’s Bairro Alto

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April 11th, 2007

Prazeres 28

Posted in Exploring the City, Streetlife, Lisbon by Christopher DeWolf

As dusk falls on Lisbon, the number 28 tram rattles into the Largo do Chiado, past crowds gathering for an evening in cafés, bars, shadowy streets. It stops at a red light. The conductor looks down, his face inscrutable. Then, with a lurch, the tram is off again. It disappears down a bend in the road.