PANDEMIC SHADOWS
KERALA
INDIA
Vestigial portraits of passers-by in the streets of Kerala, in the south of India, who quicken their pace by lowering their gaze, who turn their faces, quickly covering their mouths, or who look surprised at an unfamiliar face. Frightened and nervous shadows that fear has left paralysed as they cross paths with someone who doesn't look like them.
The always latent fear of the other causes a population, which continuously receives incomplete or not easily understandable messages, to explode into an uncontrolled xenophobia, which is born of the absurd and is exclusively fed on that fear.
"It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind." Jean-Paul Sartre.
© OSCAR ESPINOSA · ALL RIGHTS RESERVED