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An Odessa conga line

Yamandú Roos

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In ERB Issue One, we published several photographs from Yamandu Roos’s Europeans (2015). The book is a record of a found continent, with glimpses of forty countries. One photograph was titled, « I am in the Team — Effectivity, Responsibility, Order », and showed a business-casual conga-line leaving a pale blue building in Odessa in 2010. It spoke powerfully to the moment. But there was another photo that Europeans did not include, with most of them conga-lining back in. Back to work? Back to play? Hard to say.

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