The Month Before Trump

The Month Before TrumpHARVEY BENGE In the month before the 2016 presidential election New Zealand photographer Harvey Benge spent time in San Francisco and New York making the images in this book. In many ways these 59 photographs represent a time capsule places, people and scraps of visual information that is an affectionate and sometimes critical look at this mash up of a society that in October 2016 was at an existential watershed. This work does not pretend to be an

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Every year since 2001 no less than 150 sets of the decomposed or skeletal remains of people crossing into the US from Mexico have been discovered in remote areas of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert

The previous book The House of The Seven Women received considerable critical acclaim and is now out of print

She has exhibited in more than 15 countries and her work is in collections such as the Centre Pompidou

This revised and extended edition includes more than 80 photographs and features many of Martin Parr’s most iconic images

In that time

Although these photographs were taken in Rhodes between 2014 and 2019 and therefore specific in their location

” This book is nothing if not heart breaking

subjects and objects in the images

He protects their anonymity by obscuring their faces whilst exploiting light

ISBN: 978-1-904587-74-3

poverty and traffic congestion are eliminated and the environment is arranged in a way that stimulates people’s behaviour in their drive to consume