Ciber Cafe

    We found a door inside a hotel with a misspelled sign saying "Ciber Cafe". Behind the door we found one computer. Email-time.

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      svanes, mortsan, James A..., marti2006, and 133 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. Sameli (88 months ago | reply)

      Nice pic

    3. larskflem (88 months ago | reply)

      thank you, sameli

    4. svanes (88 months ago | reply)

      remarkable. i was convinced that this image was taken from an art installation...

    5. mortsan (88 months ago | reply)

      it looks theatrical, or like an installation. agree with svanes.

    6. Christopher Holden (88 months ago | reply)

      this reminds me of that weird room in the first matrix film.

    7. larskflem (87 months ago | reply)

      thanks, all of you :)

      this is how i found her, after opening the door. she was ordering air tickets. funny color. funny light. funny place.

    8. Andreas Solberg (87 months ago | reply)

      And when she finally found a computer, why did she write on paper ;P

    9. UFOGlassHens (87 months ago | reply)

      Really great pic!

    10. larskflem (87 months ago | reply)

      >ufoglasshens: thank you

    11. CheckUpOnIT (86 months ago | reply)

      nice wallcolour...

    12. (you are ace) (85 months ago | reply)

      beautiful photo! could also be an amazing "office secretary" portrait if you cropped out her sandles. ;)

    13. brnd1 [deleted] (83 months ago | reply)

      i still cannot believe that this one is shot with a cameraphone.
      a must have definitely

    14. abbilder (77 months ago | reply)

      this looks great... and strange with your description!

    15. Airships (75 months ago | reply)

      This image is just perfect; the closed-in walls defining the space, mirrored by the box shapes of of the tiles, with the pale monochromatic walls giving an impression of isolation which is emphasized by the void space behind the woman's back; the contrast between old (the three legged chair) and new (woman and computer). The compositional and color balance is awesome, with the darker green of her sweater as a focal point against the paler green of the walls. You chose just the right angle, too; just off-center enough to give the image life. And that three-legged chair really adds an interesting note. In fact, the more I study this image, the more I like it. The fact that you caught it on a camera phone is wonderful; photographers should always have their cameras with them, and in the hands of a skilled photographer a camera phone is the Leica rangefinder of our generation. Thanks for sharing this!!!

    16. larskflem (75 months ago | reply)

      thank you for all your kind comments

      >airships: i much appreciate your comment - the motif is a result of a very handy point-and-shoot mobile camera, though i wish i had a better camera so it would have come out better in larger versions. i also enjoy the story behind this photo, we stayed at quite a remote area of cuba, and this was our only sort of communication portal to the rest of the world. a pretty wooden carved sign outside the door (i'm standing in the doorway) telling this was a cyber cafe makes it even more exotic, i think

    17. larskflem (73 months ago | reply)

      cool, i agree on the roy andersson atmosphere :)

      btw, i did not postprocess this photo much at all, just cropped it a bit

    18. perdom (72 months ago | reply)

      He he he. It remembers me when I was in the matrix. Thanks I escaped it.

    19. WanderWorks (63 months ago | reply)

      Iconic image. Well done!

    20. ilcountz (62 months ago | reply)

      a fantastic image in its simplicity

    21. jpwauthier (59 months ago | reply)

      Thanks for the picture, we used it on CentPapiers : Connaissez vous des personnes esclaves de l’ordinateur ?

    22. Jeff__ (57 months ago | reply)

      At least the computer was working. Great story telling from your image.

      I'm an admin for a group called hotel (motel) culture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    23. Loving Earth (56 months ago | reply)

      Absolutely love this. The colours is just fab and the stark lack of furnishing is just surreal. Gorgeous.

    24. kristians (55 months ago | reply)

      Noe for www.sonyericsson.com/worldview/home.aspx?cc=n o&lc=no ?
      Hvis du ikke har solgt "exclusive" da;)

    25. larskflem (55 months ago | reply)

      takk for tips, kristian, har ikke solgt exclusive - men da jeg sjekket konkurransen måtte bildet være tatt i 2008... :(

    26. cibercafe (50 months ago | reply)

      descarga un programa gratis para el manejo de tu cibercafe, sistema completo www.netciber.com

    27. alxflickrrr (44 months ago | reply)

      nice img)

    28. australianpolicyonline (37 months ago | reply)

      Thanks from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI). This pic is on our home page (with attribution) for a few days from 19 May 2010. See www.cci.edu.au/ (illustrating an article about the 'CCi digital futures 2010: The internet in Australia'). Thank you for listing your image with a Creative Commons license.

    29. invisible consequential (28 months ago | reply)

      Excellent. Thanks for sharing with Creative Commons. I used this in a photo collage with an article on Digital Rations: Internet Policy in Castro's Cuba. www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/dat a/000195

    30. Jeff__ (21 months ago | reply)

      I hope it is OK if I placed this on my blog (link below). You receive full attribution and it links back to this photo page.

      --
      Seen on hotelculture.blogspot.com (?)

    31. Isaac B Watson (15 months ago | reply)

      Thanks for the awesome photo! I used it in a blog post on 3/6/12: www.ibwatson.com/2012/03/06/inbox-mastery-par t-one/

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