This is a shot taken in early spring along the railway tracks (you can see a train rattling along on the left)leaving the railway station in Padova, Italy. The area is full of large sheds, warehouses, large and small workshops, some abandoned, others still working. The wall in the image fences an empty area waiting for the constructors to build when they can get the best price. Currently it hosts heaps of rotting pallets, used by the homeless and illegal aliens to warm the cold nights off. Opposite the wall there is the strongest post-anarchist social center in the region, that represents the law and order here, with the mayor's and the police's blessing. In fact, they not only represent an interesting number of voters, but also keep stray dogs in line. This is a paradise for muralists and graffiti writers. The street along the railway tracks is also a sex market during the night, but sometimes things go very wrong. Two weeks ago a serial killer was arrested at the nearby Padova railway station: he was going to meet his third victim, an escort girl. Serial killers, however, are much less likely to kill a woman than (ex)husbands, fiancés and lovers. More women were killed this year in Italy by their partners or ex, than all the Italian soldiers killed in Irak and Afghanistan put together. The image reminded me of a mix of hyperrealist art and photojournalism. The artist probably thought of the hard-boiled crime scenes when a prostitute's body is found near the trash bins. And women are often considered trash by their killers. I added a bit if postwork to get a bleak mood. Hyperrealism is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high resolution photograph. The term is primarily applied to an independent art movement and art style in the United States and Europe that has recently developed since the early 2000s. The word Hyperréalisme was created by Isy Brachot in 1973 as a French word meaning Photorealism. It was the title of a major catalog and exhibition at his gallery in Brussels, Belgium in that year. Hyperrealism has its roots in the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard, 'the simulation of something which never really existed.' As such, Hyperrealists create a false reality that is a convincing illusion; one based upon a simulation of reality (the digital photograph). Hyperreal paintings and sculptures are an outgrowth of extremely high resolution images produced by digital cameras and displayed on computers. As Photorealism emulated analog photography, Hyperrealism utilizes digital imagery and expands upon it to create a new sense of reality. Thank you for your kind comments.