Friday, May 04, 2007

Those Amazing Billboard "Walkers"



(click on the picture to see a hi-res/zoomed-in version)

I continue to be amazed by the workers who 'walk' the massive billboards and scale the towering scaffolding here in Dubai. Often I see on my way to or from work but the traffic is so bad it would be suicidal to snap a picture. The other day into work I saw these guys when the lanes were relatively clear next to me. So I signaled and eased over onto the shoulder, rolled down the window and snapped this picture.

How minute they seem compared with the baby's gigantic face is a bit of a metaphor for how the subcontinent workers are treated here in the Emirates.

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