by Adam Broomberg | Oliver Chanarin
Ghetto
2003
£75.00
First edition of Ghetto by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Some minor shelf rubbing to the boards and some small soft bumps to the corners. The spine is intact and all of the pages are clean.
About
This is a journey through 12 modern ghettos starting in a refugee camp in Tanzania and ending in a forest in Patagonia. In each of these places, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, as editors and photographers of COLORS magazine between August 2000 and December 2002, spent a month in each place and methodically documented their inhabitants, and asked them the same questions: How did you get here? Who is in power? Where do you go to be alone? To make love? To get your teeth fixed? What are your hopes and dreams?For many of those photographed it was their first time in front of a camera. Some looked into it with a hard, penetrating gaze. Others obeyed the ritual of photography with smiles. And Mario, on the cover, turned his back on the camera and waited for the shutter to click.
