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The story has distant roots, in Rome, where already two thousand years ago Augustus, copying Marcus Ignatius Rufus''s original idea, formed the Vigiles, a group of men serving both purposes of night watch and firefighting, by patrolling the City and setting up bucket chains whenever and wherever flames erupted.
While location has become a contested marker of global citizenship, Udemba, who lives in Berlin, examines the myriad forms black identity takes in the social and political imaginary of urban Paris in a twelve-panel photography series titled Vigiles.
As dusk fell, my mom, dad and I drove to the chapel at Los Vigiles, a mission outside Las Vegas, N.
 
 
 
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