Where the line blurs is a photographic work focusing on the landscape and people behind the headlines in Mexico’s northern border. Covering some 3000km from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, the region has often been portrayed through stories of cartel violence, disappearances, the impact of US border policies, and the different waves […]
‘The act of photography is that of ‘phenomenological doubt’, wrote Vilém Flusser in Towards a Philosophy for Photography. This phenomenological doubt is due to ‘the attempt of photography to capture a situation from any number of points of view’. If the objectivity of the photographic medium has been discussed for more than a century, the […]
Jordi Ruiz Cirera’s series, The United Soya Republic, belongs to a tradition of what might be called quiet observational documentary. His gaze is steady, acute, sometimes contemplative, always thought-provoking. He spends time with his subjects before he spends time photographing them. The end result is a deft merging of the detached and the intimate. In […]
the work follows the realities of the younger generation in Ramallah, a city that has seen a rapid lifestyle change influenced by Western culture and a more open-minded attitude than other more conservative cities in the West Bank.
“Comprising of images taken between 2010 and 2011 in the Mennonite colonies of Santa Cruz, in Eastern Bolivia, Los Menonos is a portrait of a community of self-styled, self-willed outsiders that have voyaged out into the wilderness of a foreign land to escape that which may yet prove to be inescapable: the inexorable encroachment of […]