Behind Closed Doors

Transatlantic

Look at this picture. Pretty dull and uninteresting. This is a photo of the submarine telecommunication cables that extend more than 8,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean before reaching this endpoint in Avon, New Jersey. They transmit as many as 60 million simultaneous conversations.

“There’s a humor because the cables are so important, yet they look so unguarded and unimportant,”

This is from the book: Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar.
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