The photos 馃摳 are my entry to the #monomad contest from 
Greetings Hivers.
Sometimes, walking through the streets, I see people who make me hesitate before taking a photograph. People who seem like ruined buildings, fortresses worn down by centuries of rain and salt, like this man who lives in a capital made of only a few square meters and owns more books than furniture. Resisting as he can, with just enough will to live to get up every day, breathe, and little more.
But when I look up, I realize that his surroundings are in no better condition.
Sometimes I think it is not him who lives inside the ruin, but the ruin that leans on him so it does not collapse completely. While he reads, while he slowly turns a page, he holds something more than a book, he holds time, memory, and a quiet form of dignity. The building crumbles, the city cracks, but in that minimal act of reading there is still resistance. And that, even if it does not seem so, is also a form of home.
Saludos Hivers.
A veces por la calle veo personas que me hacen titubear antes de hacerles una foto. Personas que parecen edificios en ruinas, fortalezas castigadas por siglos de lluvia y sal, como este se帽or que vive en una capital de apenas unos metros cuadrados y que tiene m谩s libros que muebles. Resistiendo como puede, con suficientes ganas de vivir para levantarse todos los d铆as, respirar y poco m谩s.
Pero cuando levanto la vista me doy cuenta de que su entorno no est谩 en mejores condiciones.
A veces pienso que no es 茅l quien habita la ruina, sino la ruina la que se apoya en 茅l para no caer del todo. Mientras lee, mientras pasa una p谩gina con calma, sostiene algo m谩s que un libro, sostiene el tiempo, la memoria y una forma silenciosa de dignidad. El edificio se desmorona, la ciudad se agrieta, pero en ese gesto m铆nimo de leer todav铆a hay resistencia. Y eso, aunque no lo parezca, tambi茅n es una forma de hogar.
"All photos were taken by me 
Technical data:
Nicon camera: Nikon D700
Nicon lens: 50mm f1.4 p-ais; 105mm f2.5 p-ais; 55 f1.2; 35mm f1.8 G
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