Alex Fattal is a PhD candidate in social anthropology at Harvard University. His forthcoming dissertation is titled “Guerrilla Marketing: Information War and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels” and will feature an addendum in the form of a short film about the dreams of ex-combatants filmed in a truck turned camera obscura. As a visual anthropologist he has also produced an experimental documentary, Trees Tropiques, and founded participatory photography projects for refugee youth, including Shooting Cameras for Peace in Colombia.
Alex Fattal
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Reinventing Documentary
Forged at the interstice of art history and curatorial practice, T. J. Demos’s The Migrant Image is an ambitious sketch of how politically committed documentary artists—working in film, video, and photography—have responded to uneven capitalist expansion and the migrations impelled by abject poverty, authoritarianism, and armed conflict. The art projects Demos features confront this global […]
