JUAN JOSÉ BARBOZA-GUBO AND ANDREW MROCZEK

While Peru's landscape is often celebrated for its rich history, the series Fatherland shifts this perception and offers a counter narrative, exposing viewers to the scars born from decades of a relentless epidemic of hate. Through extensive research from within the gay and transgender communities, Barboza-Gubo & Mroczek document the sites of hate crimes throughout Peru’s cities, deserts, the Andes, and deep within the jungles of the Amazon. Although no assailant is shown, the series underscores the dangerous effects of patriarchy and intolerance, and examines how these constructs create the toxic environments that lend little worth to LGBTQ lives.

For Peruvian audiences, these accounts of brutality place an unsettling mirror reflecting the dark underbelly of their own culture. For the rest of the world, the photographs serve to unmask a prevailing apathy toward the social injustices and the everyday struggle for safety and survival that many LGBTQ-identifying populations endure. It is common for Peru’s victims of homophobic and transphobic persecution to have their stories absent from public record and delegated to anecdotal remembrance. Fatherland seeks to mitigate this void. To that end, each image is captioned with the name of the victim, their age, and the year, location, and nature of the assault. The series was photographed between in 2014 and 2019.

Hardcover book. Features 31 plates, a vellum slipcase, debossed and stamped silver-foil details, and 13 hand-tipped vellum pages. 96 pages.

Essays by Fabrice Houdart, Human Rights Officer, United Nations;

Juan Peralta, Chief Curator, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Perú;

Leyla Huerta, Director, Féminas Perú.

Text in English and Spanish

Published by Daylight Books, January, 2020