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Cristina De Middel: Journey To The Centre

Cristina De Middel: Journey To The Centre

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Cristina de Middel develops images that encourage reflection in the viewer. Her photographic essay “Journey to the Center”, which investigates phenomena related to the migration route through Mexico, has an atmosphere and symbolism inspired by Jules Verne’s famous novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth”.

With a language that combines straight documentary photography with constructed images and archival material, the narrative becomes multi-layered.

The migratory route through Central America is portrayed as a heroic and daring journey. Mexico, the setting for this adventure, is presented as the fascinating and extreme country that it is.

Cristina de Middel has been travelling for years with migrants on the train they call “the beast”, interviewing sicarios (hired killers), talking for hours with “coyotes” (clandestine smugglers) and police officers. By combining her own photographs with objects found in the desert and archive footage, she creates a multi-layered narrative.

The starting point is Tapachula, the Southern border of Mexico with Guatemala, and the journey ends in Felicity, a small town in California that is the officially “Center of the World”. This epic journey is punctuated by the accounts of three migrants recounting their terrible journey and commentary by the artist. An afterword by Mexican journalist, Pedro Anza, illuminates the issues at stake and the human consequences of the United States’ obsession with closing its borders.

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Journey To The Centre
Publisher: Editorial RM, 2024
Photographer: Cristina De Middel
Text: Pedro Anza & Cristina de Middel
Graphic Design: Maricris Herrera
Format: Hardcover
Size: 20x30cm, 176 pages, 150 images
ISBN: 978-84-10290-00-6

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