Map of Latin American Dreams
“Map of Latin American Dreams” presents the first anthology of one photographer’s odyssey, bringing together his diaries and reminiscences. This seminal critique is more than just a collection of photographs. Empowering his subject with small, wooden blackboards and chalk, Weber’s photographs become not just a collection of dreams, but hopes, wishes and elucidations.
Set against the historical, political and social contexts of eight countries, Map of Latin American Dreams is a selection of 110 carefully staged scenes. From its golden cover to the preface’s silver negatives inside, the book is an open invitation to a journey from El Dorado to the ’New World’, all the while reflecting on the relationship between history and photographic practice.
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Echoes from the Interior
“Echoes from the Interior” is a look at time, at the deep interior of Argentina and its history, as its living heritage is reflected in sensitive iconic sites, ancestral practices and devotional objects that defy time and cultural identity. Martin Weber presents a kind of past that does not precede the present, a past that persists and inhabits that present wildly, as if the failure of any illusion of progress would have altered the neat line between before and after. This work was made between 1995 and 2002, before the fall of one presidency, which was followed by four more in just one week.
“Echoes of the Interior” was nominated in Paris Photo in the top 100 photo books published between 1997 and 2011.