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"I look up at the girl on the screen...The girl's skin has blackened in the sun, and the face contracted as it mummified. She was kidnapped, raped, murdered. Jaime [Bailleres, photographer] explains that the newspaper refused to publish this photograph. I tell myself that a photograph is worth a thousand words. I tell myself photographs lie. I tell myself there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. I tell myself I am still sleeping. But she stares at me. The skin is smooth, almost carved and sanded, but much too dark. And the screams are simply too deafening."
....... - Charles Bowden, Harper's Magazine |
"Nada Que Ver" (Nothing to See) was originally the name of a photography exhibit put on by Juarez street photographers, some of whom have photographed over 500 murders in the city. The phrase evokes a central theme in the media representations of these murders: invisibility, unknowability, uncertainties, mystery.In this way, the hyper-visible, marked sites of gender, race, and class write through and on these images, bodily traces of the invisible, almost mythic murders.
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