Los Sumergidos

EL RETRATO DE TU AUSENCIA
by Alejandro “Luperca” Morales

Swiss bound softcover
Lenticular photographs mounted on covers
112 pages, 74 works
Offset printing
6.7×9 inches
First edition of 600 copies
ISBN 978-91-987606-5-1
Co-published with Kult Books, Stockholm, SE
Designed by Fernando Gallegos, Monterrey, MX

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During a period of six years, Alejandro Morales collected more than 500 photographs depicting bodies published in 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 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.

Morales approached the newspaper from its name, understanding it as a "Post-Mortem" space. When what was supposed to be in the image no longer appeared, the void that was left opened up a chance to think about what was actually happening. The softness of the eraser, the duration of the erasing process, and its ritual connotations confront the immediacy and brutality of these cases. These new images intend to grant an opportunity for mourning, a more dignified form of death.

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Obscura’s WHO WE ARE documents the humans participating, building, and creating in Web3 and the NFT space, starting in 2021, the year NFTs took the world by storm. The project has encompassed 33 countries and over 175 people so far and will be ongoing, continuing perpetually with Obscura as it grows over time.
WHO WE ARE 200 is the first chapter, capped at 200 photos.