Surreal prices in Venezuela in art project by photographer Carlos Garcia Bashny.Net

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In Venezuela, the economic crisis has led to some shocking and surreal price distortions, which sometimes are staggering ordinary people. To illustrate this story, photographed various products and their "tags" in dollars. For example right now kilogram of raw carrots costs $ 19.05, equivalent to 120 Venezuelan bolivars at the official exchange rate of 6.3 per dollar Bolivar.





And for example sports shoes by Puma are here for almost $ 1,200. In this article we will see some crazy high prices for simple everyday now exists in Venezuela.





Photographer Carlos Garcia says: "I wanted to show in Venezuela, something more substantial, really show the current economic crisis of Venezuela. So this time I wanted to create photos that would really show people the story at hand, namely the crazily high prices for simple everyday products. The idea was simple: to photograph a product with a price tag showing its equivalent in U.S. dollars.





























































 

Source: mirfactov.com/