Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit: A Look at How Mexico's Drug War Impacts Regular People TheJournal.ie
go to original January 26, 2014

Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit (David Rochkind)

Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit: Mexico at War by David Rochkind Check it out on Amazon.com

After looking through his book, Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit: Mexico at War, photographer David Rochkind wants the reader to feel they have seen something “violent and heavy”.

That seems to run counter to his decision not to photograph the bloody violence he encountered over two-and-a-half years living in Mexico, studying the people consumed by a terrifying drugs war.

“I didn’t want it to feel anonymous, or that it could be a photo taken in any location of conflict in the world,” he told TheJournal.ie in an interview this week.

His objective became the reality. Looking through the online exhibition, which is just a small sample of the work, the viewer feels like they have been invited into other people’s lives. A terrifying peephole into real existence, not a televised version of war in a far-off land.

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