Seba Kurtis: ‘Drowned’

A5 24pp with map insert
Printed by digital indigo press on uncoated recycled paper
Hand stamped title on cover page
Housed in a transparent heavy duty travel document wallet
First edition, signed by the artist
Published by Here Press

Every year thousands of people attempt the dangerous crossing from Africa’s north-west coast to the Canary Islands, pursuing the promise of a better life in Europe. Many drown or die of exposure. Seba Kurtis photographed the stark, fenced-off coastline that greets those who survive, and threw the negatives into the sea. The images that made it ashore – bleached, worn and scarred – come to life in ‘Drowned’.

A series of flood-damaged photographs rescued from the home of Kurtis’s grandmother before his family fled a financially-ruined Argentina in 2001, connect the harsh impersonal processes of the sea to the deeply emotional experience of migration, with all the risks and sacrifices such a journey entails.

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A special boxed edition of ‘Drowned’, which includes an original flood-damaged Kurtis family photograph, is available, for more information please contact hello@hereontheweb.co.uk