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but the boy is the protagonist
Many young men here see soccer as their only way out of poverty and are eager to follow in the footsteps of successful native players such as Delgado.
Bas drawings and writings on his work chart and narrate the images beneath. All the works are untitled. One depicts the water edge in an overexposed shimmer; a dark blur of a boy holds a ball at the bottom. Bas has circled him. Other figures lurk behind, but the boy is the protagonist,lebron 10, under a bleached white sky in which the artist has scribbled clouds. The drawing turns a snapshot into something sweetly mythic; this one made me think of Little Prince. The inky scribble adds an element of animation to the photo. He draws a line between the two prints, and brackets the whole with a drawn landscape mountains on top, buildings on the bottom, and there, a silhouetted figure. That figure echoes one in the first photo, a shadowy man approaching the unsuspecting kids from around the corner with that neat stroke, Bas imbues his dusty idyll with threat. Of course, threat of one kind or another is a constant to poor children. Bas, in these photos, cherishes how they keep on playing anyway.
The benefits were that it would help them to be found by their prospects, no matter what city they currently lived in; that the media would be more likely to interview them about current real estate issues; and that they could have their clients' listings appear on page one of Google. "She was married to a banker, which may explain it," says Caroline. "But she wanted all sorts, particularly for dancing."