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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Benedict Brain

I took photos of 36 electric boxes in Buenos Aires and made some decent dough from them. Odd subjects often pay better than postcard views

Mosaic of 36 images of multicolored electricity boxes.

While most visitors in Buenos Aires point their cameras at the colorful houses of La Boca or the tango dancers in San Telmo, I spent my time photographing something far less obvious. Electricity meters. Thirty-six of them, to be exact. 

Hardly glamorous, but this typological way of working not only feeds my creative curiosity but has also become my most profitable body of work of 2025. Prints have sold at the Bath Contemporary Artists’ Fair, through the gallery that represents me, and through online sales. Not bad for some scragglly little electric meter boxes. 

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