The unwelcome face

A subtle and provocative series that proposed by Seba Kurtis to photograph habits and nonsenses along the 700 fenced miles separating the U.S. from Mexico. A forced division that uncovers the fear of invasion in a country that paradoxically owes half of its population increase to its Hispanic population. On this senseless track flows the bitter consideration of a photographer who has personally experienced the same vicissitudes as an illegal immigrant in Europe. With this awareness, the look of Kurtis flees from the American border’s representation and easy clichés to find those signs and references that testify the inevitable need for co-existence, reciprocity and contamination between the two distinct rather than distant cultures. References to that Hispanic are much more alive, as the intensity of the light forced to the point that may constitute the defect that the tradition regards as serendipity, as much, in our humble opinion, the desire to illuminate the lives of certain “Minutemen”.

Photo:

© Courtesy of Seba Kurtis

www.sebakurtis.com

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