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Solitary men in repeating, geometric environments

By a stroke of luck, I happened upon these two scenes a couple of weeks apart, which form a pair of images which are visuallly similar, but also substantially different:

The first was taken with a 28mm lens, and was captured in one of the most expensive, opulent environments in our country. The second, taken with a 200mm lens, and one of the poorest and most dangerous:

"Progress passes me by"
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A security guard in a five-star shopping centre, with a backdrop of enormously expensive building development.

"Repetitive housing"
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A dilapidated townhouse building in an extremely poor and violent are between Johannesburg and Germiston, taken from a moving train.
 
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