It’s a road in the Southwest, and the photograph’s exposure emphasizes the blasting sun and shadows it makes. The weathered face of the subject, the cast of his eyes, makes him seem as though he has a thousand stories, and maybe he’ll tell us one. But, the photographer reveals, he never did.
“At the height of the summer of 2020, we landed in Gallup, NM empty streets. An eerie desert silence mixed with the constant whistle and screeching metal on metal wheels and track of the never-ending present locomotive,” the photographer writes.“Here I encountered these two Native American gentlemen. We never spoke a word.”
Gallup, New Mexico is just one of a deluge of deeply affecting and human images in“America Unfiltered,” running now at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art at 51 Trumbull St. through Aug. 4.
