2.Can I ‘read’ Public Space?
Yes it takes some time but then I get ideas in Public Space just like in my own culture. The first week in Bangladesh I was overwhelmed by the impressions. At first I misread a lot of the signs in public space. The combination of the recent political turmoil I was told of and the texts in a letters which are alien to me take the culture for an agressive one. On the contrary the Bangla people are the sweetest I have met so far. When I overcame my own culture shock I started to ‘read’ public space as is my second nature in my own culture. I discovered two scripts in public space that can be transported to all parts of the world: Beggars economics or what skills, equipment and training do you need to survive, living and working in Public Space. Commuting or how does the worldwide phenomenon that people work where the job is best paid and live where the houses are cheap.

>Trafficjam all over. The press car of Drik collects me on the airport.

>Commuting. The plane from Dhaka Bangladesh to Dubai is filled with farmers who just sold their land. They start working as builders. If they get sacked within the first two years of the contract are over they end pennyless on the airport. I saw them sleeping under thin blankets on the floor.

>American photojournalist as economic refugee in Bangladesh. The money of the fellowship to teach at the Independent University, he sends home to his family. He can live cheap and do his work as a photographer. At home he must take odd jobs.