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Their confessed influences are two photographers (Walker Evans y Robert Frank) and a writer (Raymond Carver). Three individuals who have gone to document the reality of the United States of the 20th century; that of the great and feared power since the terrible depression that it suffered at the end of the decade of the 20, to that of permanent uprooting: the one that illustrates so well the stories of the last of those mentioned. like their heroes, the british Paul Graham (1956), a kind of Jarvis Cocker glued to a camera, has taken images of this contradictory country (Marc Bassets dixit) since his arrival to him in 2002. And he has traveled it to leave a record (paraphrasing Roland Barthes of The camera lucida: the “this has been”) from a nearby place and time: the photographs that make up The whiteness of the whale, coming from three of its most significant series, They cover the period from 2002 a 2011. Themes such as inequality are evident in series of images where the reference appears and disappears as if by magic. Pay attention. Rafa Martínez
