DAVID ROCHKIND: Heavy Hand, Sunken SpiritOver several years Mexico has been consumed by a brutal conflict more than 35,000 people have been killed and kidnappings have skyrocketed. After barely winning Mexicos 2006 presidential election, Felipe Calderon escalated the battle against the countrys drug cartels in an attempt to marginalise the deadly gangs and the corrupt politicians and police officers who enable them. The cartels are ruthless, meting out an awesome brutality where heads are

Autoportrait

75 colour photographs

Published in association with éditions Trans Photographic Press

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a light shining in the dark

Whilst the work ranges from street photographs through to constructed images

when handing out the pictures

a cluster of distant soldiers undertake firing exercises

two of which are now out of print

space and surface

These have been hailed by the likes of design historian

Winner of an AOP award