L'AMÉRIQUE LATINE ÉRAFLÉE - Alexis Fabry
The walls of ruined architecture, scarred and discolored by saltpetre in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Cuba and Mexico, bear the scars of time and the traces of political struggles...
The stones of ancient civilizations have been torn away and stripped of their color to build the modernist utopia, but neither urban ghosts nor the specter of revolution have saved Latin America from the abyss of violence.
The Mexican revolution, the very first of the twentieth century, was summed up in the dictablanda of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. A few decades later, the hopes of the Cuban revolution collapsed in disillusionment. In other parts of the hemisphere, attempts to consolidate democracy were derailed by authoritarian regimes and civil wars. An informal economy has been sustained by the drug trade, which also finances guerrilla movements and penetrates the very workings of government.
Inequitable societies nurture wounded dreams. On crumbling walls, commercial advertisements and political slogans decay beneath layers of tattered posters. Lima's nights are sleepless; Buenaventura's prostitutes waste their youth in the suffocating heat of the Pacific coast; mothers and their children survive in the shadows of Argentina's prisons. On the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, transvestites flee military police raids, while in Mexico, they join the wild nights of the counter-culture.
These photographs, many of them scratched, scarred, incised and inhabited by the lacerations of an entire region, trace the lineaments of a tortured landscape.
Published by Toluca Editions, 2021
30 cm x 24 cm, 167 pages, new
ISBN 9782490161096
The walls of ruined architecture, scarred and discolored by saltpetre in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Cuba and Mexico, bear the scars of time and the traces of political struggles...
The stones of ancient civilizations have been torn away and stripped of their color to build the modernist utopia, but neither urban ghosts nor the specter of revolution have saved Latin America from the abyss of violence.
The Mexican revolution, the very first of the twentieth century, was summed up in the dictablanda of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. A few decades later, the hopes of the Cuban revolution collapsed in disillusionment. In other parts of the hemisphere, attempts to consolidate democracy were derailed by authoritarian regimes and civil wars. An informal economy has been sustained by the drug trade, which also finances guerrilla movements and penetrates the very workings of government.
Inequitable societies nurture wounded dreams. On crumbling walls, commercial advertisements and political slogans decay beneath layers of tattered posters. Lima's nights are sleepless; Buenaventura's prostitutes waste their youth in the suffocating heat of the Pacific coast; mothers and their children survive in the shadows of Argentina's prisons. On the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, transvestites flee military police raids, while in Mexico, they join the wild nights of the counter-culture.
These photographs, many of them scratched, scarred, incised and inhabited by the lacerations of an entire region, trace the lineaments of a tortured landscape.
Published by Toluca Editions, 2021
30 cm x 24 cm, 167 pages, new
ISBN 9782490161096
The walls of ruined architecture, scarred and discolored by saltpetre in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Cuba and Mexico, bear the scars of time and the traces of political struggles...
The stones of ancient civilizations have been torn away and stripped of their color to build the modernist utopia, but neither urban ghosts nor the specter of revolution have saved Latin America from the abyss of violence.
The Mexican revolution, the very first of the twentieth century, was summed up in the dictablanda of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. A few decades later, the hopes of the Cuban revolution collapsed in disillusionment. In other parts of the hemisphere, attempts to consolidate democracy were derailed by authoritarian regimes and civil wars. An informal economy has been sustained by the drug trade, which also finances guerrilla movements and penetrates the very workings of government.
Inequitable societies nurture wounded dreams. On crumbling walls, commercial advertisements and political slogans decay beneath layers of tattered posters. Lima's nights are sleepless; Buenaventura's prostitutes waste their youth in the suffocating heat of the Pacific coast; mothers and their children survive in the shadows of Argentina's prisons. On the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, transvestites flee military police raids, while in Mexico, they join the wild nights of the counter-culture.
These photographs, many of them scratched, scarred, incised and inhabited by the lacerations of an entire region, trace the lineaments of a tortured landscape.
Published by Toluca Editions, 2021
30 cm x 24 cm, 167 pages, new
ISBN 9782490161096