Peabody Essex Museum East India Square (161 Essex St) Salem Massachusetts États-Unis
Pre-eminent South African photographer Jo Ractliffe (b. 1961) is drawn to borderlands, frontiers and communities living on the fringe. Selected from Ractliffe's "Border Trilogy," this exhibition features nearly 30 black-and-white photographs taken in the most remote reaches of Angola and South Africa. The artist underwent extensive survival skills training, including land mine detection classes, before traveling to settlements so far off grid as to not be found on a map. Ractliffe's resulting images - of barren landscapes, abandoned military posts and asbestos factories - simultaneously document and find stark beauty in these war torn, dispossessed and forget regions.
Support provided by the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.