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The Backway
Durante 4 años, un grupo de periodistas y fotógrafos caminaron la principal ruta migratoria de millares de personas indocumentadas que intentan llegar a Europa. Una travesía que reveló el abuso, la injusticia y la muerte, pero que también descubrió la esperanza de estos migrantes por alcanzar un mejor futuro. Un camino vasto, incompleto y muchas veces fallido, que hace que los autores se cuestionen su propio trabajo y profesión.
Edición de Laia Abril y Roger P. Gironès. Fotografía y texto de Xavier Aldekoa, Agus Morales, Clara Roig, Pau Coll, Toni Arnau y Edu Ponces.
168 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2022
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April 3, 2023
What a piece of art, what a splendid book. And how hard to describe it.
So, it is a book of photographs. Perhaps not the type of table book, large and amazing that visiting friends open out of curiosity to be shocked by nice, over-filtered pictures; but still a book of photographs of adventure and suffering. But this is also a collage of texts and other materials, really moving all of them: lives but also deaths. And, as the authors say (which one perhaps doesn't matter), a collection of mistakes.
The edition is overwhelming for the senses: the sight, the reading and the touch. I just have been lucky enough for being one of the first readers in my local library. I believe the reading damage was still moderate. A few pages were torn, though: a previous, mischievous reader or the vacuum left by so many lives drowned in the Mediterranean Sea?
So, it is a book of photographs. Perhaps not the type of table book, large and amazing that visiting friends open out of curiosity to be shocked by nice, over-filtered pictures; but still a book of photographs of adventure and suffering. But this is also a collage of texts and other materials, really moving all of them: lives but also deaths. And, as the authors say (which one perhaps doesn't matter), a collection of mistakes.
The edition is overwhelming for the senses: the sight, the reading and the touch. I just have been lucky enough for being one of the first readers in my local library. I believe the reading damage was still moderate. A few pages were torn, though: a previous, mischievous reader or the vacuum left by so many lives drowned in the Mediterranean Sea?
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