el retrato de tu ausencia
El Retrato De Tu Ausencia by Alejandro “Luperca” Morales
During a period of six years Alejandro Morales collected more than 500 photographs depicting bodies published his local newspaper P.M. in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The time of extreme violence made Ciudad Juárez among the most violent cities in the world, marked by the large number of intentional homicides committed in its streets. The limits of what the press could publish were blurred as it was so common to find oneself in the middle of a shootout or come across an abandoned corpse. Morales removed all the corpses that he found in the photographs in the P.M. Newspaper by manually erasing them with a gum eraser.
112 pages / 74 works / 17 x 22,7 cm,
Swiss bound softcover, Offset printing
Lenticular photographs mounted on covers
ISBN 978-91-987606-5-1,
First Edition of 600
TVC085
Concept by Alejandro “Luperca” Morales
Co-published by Kult Books and Los Sumergidos
Designed by Fernando Gallegos
May 2023
Shortlisted for the 2022 LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD
During a period of six years Alejandro Morales collected more than 500 photographs depicting bodies published his local newspaper P.M. in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The time of extreme violence made Ciudad Juárez among the most violent cities in the world, marked by the large number of intentional homicides committed in its streets. The limits of what the press could publish were blurred as it was so common to find oneself in the middle of a shootout or come across an abandoned corpse. Morales removed all the corpses that he found in the photographs in the P.M. Newspaper by manually erasing them with a gum eraser.
112 pages / 74 works / 17 x 22,7 cm,
Swiss bound softcover, Offset printing
Lenticular photographs mounted on covers
ISBN 978-91-987606-5-1,
First Edition of 600
TVC085
Concept by Alejandro “Luperca” Morales
Co-published by Kult Books and Los Sumergidos
Designed by Fernando Gallegos
May 2023
Shortlisted for the 2022 LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD