Un quartier déshérité de la riche ville de Vancouver sert de décor à l’impressionnante série de portraits des habitants du Downtown East Side. Dénonciation vigoureuse de l’abandon à la drogue et au sida d´une population marginalisée, cet ebook de photos est un témoignage choc d’une photographe engagée.
En 2010, la série a reçu le prix des fondations Inge Morath et Magnum, “Tony” la photo choisie pour la couverture a été primée à de nombreuses reprises.
Les Editions Bessard et UPblisher.com inaugurent leur partenariat avec la publication du 1er ebook de photographies de la Zine Collection The Downtown East Side de la photographe australienne...
Slab City has been created by a small but committed squatter’s community. It lies in the Colorado Desert in South Eastern California and takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain from an abandoned World War II base. It is a truly horrific and romantic landscape that commands residents to possess the same balance of beauty and beast. Unbearable temperature highs in the summer weed out the many who inhabit the free space in the winter, leaving only the most resilient, or the most unfortunate to become permanent residents. It is also these people who maintain the ad-hoc infrastructure that makes it such a desirable community to visit in the cooler winter months. The people who stay year after year could be described as poverty stricken, living in possibly the worst conditions in the USA, and some residents wo...