Jim Goldberg, photographer/artist/wordsmith - a SF colleague & member of Magnum
- has done some extraordinary work exploring and artfully documenting that
terrain of migrants that includes those who have been sex trafficked, or are
economic or political refugees from a radius that includes Russia, north Africa
& India. I bring Jim's work up because much of it intimately lives within that
nerve center from which these eruptions around the Mediterranean are flying more
than ever into public consciousness. I think it's right on and into the geist of
that zone in which your own country ceases to exist.
You may have seen Goldberg's work exhibited in London, France and Italy during
the last couple of years. Steidl published his "Open See", a boxed set of four
books, now going into a second printing. Or, for a quick sense, you can see the
work posted on Magnum website.
Stephen Vincent
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