Every Sunday I look forward to the magazine and also to the section called Look. Two weeks ago this section was about this amazing story from Uganda and these fascinating images.
” Visiting the town of Gulu in northern Uganda, the Italian photographer Martina Bacigalupo happened upon discarded portraits with the subjects’ faces removed. They led her to the Gulu Real Art Studio, where Obal Denis sold ID photos by cutting rectangles out of larger prints. Bacigalupo gathered Denis’s scraps and interviewed his customers. Many had been affected by the war in northern Uganda, which lasted some two decades. Taken for driver’s licenses, new job and loan applications, the photos were the means for Ugandans to start new chapters in their lives. The “leftovers,” as Bacigalupo calls the images — showing at the Walther Collection Project Space in New York next month — evoke in her mind both the “agony of an entire community” and its resilience. ”
See the images and story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/25/magazine/look-Gulu.html?_r=0
09/5/2013 | Posted by Eye Forward
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