Recreating a visual record of a lost Mexican past
By Abiodun Ogundairo
27 October 2020 |
3:12 pm
How to give a face to a community that has no real photographic record of its existence? We sit down with Belgian photographer Tomas van Houtryve, whose latest work seeks to reinsert Mexican culture and identity into the visual history of the American West.
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