Tim Smyth ‘My Son’s Absence’ photos
Subject-led portraits of migrant workers caught up in the Libya conflict.
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HUCK photographer Tim Smyth has recently exhibited a selection of portrait photos, My Son's Absence.
The photos are of African migrants who are currently living in the Italian town of Spoleto after fleeing or being forcibly expelled from war-torn Libya.
In all the photos, the subjects dictated the location, poses and possessions they were holding to help tell their story first hand.
Says Smyth: "At the first location, they took me to the maize that was growing behind they were staying to parody colonial imagery of Africa posing in the vegetation [...]. At the second location they invited us in to the basement flat where they stayed. They then asked me to photograph them on their beds. They were all staying in one large room, [...] the beds defined their personal space."
The project is supported by the Anna Mahler International Association and aims to chart the work of refugee charity Il Cerchio who have housed them.
Alassani
Benjamin
Greg
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Tim Smyth ‘My Son’s Absence’ photos (text) by Ed Andrews is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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