I Arrived in Nicosia where tomorrow I will go to photograph the abandoned airport inside the UNFICYP base (read UNFICYP mandate on the island on their website http://www.unficyp.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=1).
I went for a walk in the old city, along the buffer zone, to take some snapshots as test for my project.
When I asked permission to photography I was told by government of the Republic of Cyprus that I can photograph expect where there is a sign that says otherwise…problem is: the sign is everywhere.
A very old sign, possibly put there 40 years ago…so old it depicts a 5×4 camera!
I think they played a practical joke on me. “Yes you are allowed to photograph but not where there is the sign…” it’s bloody everywhere!

So i sneaked some snapshots even where i wasn’t supposed to photograph, as well as photographing the empty streets and crumbling buildings on the “greek”side.
Some houses are inhabited, there are people whose back wall/back garden is a border! I hope to meet some and photograph them…but at 2pm under the burning sun the streets were empty