This Clever Blog Might Make You Think Twice About Your Role As a Tourist Priscilla Frank - The Huffington Post
go to original June 3, 2014

Farmer, Bali, 2009
The farmer: "The problem here is water."
Photographer: "But you have running water..."
The farmer: "In your hotel, yes."  (Nicolas Demeersman/www.jolipunk.com)

It probably doesn't come as a huge surprise that tourists are amongst the most reviled subgroups of human beings. Butchering languages, crowding up local spots, snapping photos without permission and dropping a few offensive comments along the way, few tourists manage to explore a new locale without vexing many a local in the process.

Photographer Nicolas Demeersman makes the universal aversion to tourism very, very clear in his photography series "F*cking Tourist." Demeersman captures portraits of citizens of Peru, Jordan, Cuba, Lebanon and beyond, dressed in local garb that many tourists might deem worthy of a snapshot. The one thing all Demeersman's subjects have in common? A proudly wielded middle finger, saying to tourists what so many wish they could - a big fat "f*ck you."

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