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Map of Latin American dreams by Martin Weber
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Map Of Latin American Dreams By Martin Weber

In a documentary style, Weber represents the subjects in what appear to be truthful, candid poses. This style is appropriate for his goal of depicting the evolution of another crisis in Latin America: In an exhibition catalogue from 2004, Weber tells how unemployment is driving the middle class into poverty. The gap between the poor and the rich is expanding and "conditions that create the pattern of cycles involving social fragmentation, political violence and instability are rising."
An Argentine born in Chile and now living in Brooklyn, N.Y., Weber is Silver Eye's 2008 Fellowship Recipient. Juror Ariel Shanberg, executive director of The Center for Photography at Woodstock, chose Weber's work from some 300 submissions. Weber received a cash award and this solo exhibition.
Weber photographs his sitters in Latin America, in poses that are overwhelmingly strong, even confrontational. These victims of poverty or political strife are represented not as mere sufferers, but as people we might be able to relate to. Few of us have been through a civil war or extreme poverty, but all of us have dreamed of something better.

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