As with his photographs of the Mississippi
suggesting the weight of belief and the stark beauty of South Africa’s interior
make me search for closeness
Taken between 1983 and 1985
Barbey has traveled all over the world
Fine Print: Istanbul, Turkey, 2001 Paris As with his photographs ofWebb began his career as a photographer in the 1970s, making pictures of the American social landscape in the streets of New England and New York, working exclusively in black and white. In the preface to The Suffering of Light, he describes having reached a kind of dead end in photography, as well as an eagerness to explore new territories. That year, in 1975, inspired by Graham Greenes novel, The Comedians, he jumped on a plane to Port au Prince to