Fine Print: Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 1996 Fine Prints Ian Berry conceived of The

Ian Berry conceived of The English as a project that would enable him to both document and rediscover the country in which he was born and grew up: “It seemed like a good idea to do something on the English before my eyes got too jaded

Edward Makuka Nkoloso

In January 1999

Over the course of 15 years

decided to start studying the effects that intensive and partial documentation has in certain territories and to question the role that photography and the media have played in building our biased understanding of the world and the patterns of the stories that we consume as real

Fine Print: Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 1996 Fine Prints Ian Berry conceived of TheWebb 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