Kent Klich

Kent Klich start to work with trouble adolescents as a psychologist, and after we turn to photography. He was part of the Magnum agency from 1998 until 2002. It is notable in his work a strong commitment to social issues, drug addicts, HIV, prostitutes, and so. The first that I heard about Kent Klich was through Magnum book where his work Children of Ceausescu was present. This work is about the HIV crisis of Romanian children and even though it is an horrible reality and a fact that, probably, 50% of our society is not aware of, I can not help but notice in the "beautiful" aesthetic of this work. His approach, the scale of  greys, the emotion present in every photograph, the expressions, how he are affected by this work. Another work that captured my attention was Book of Beth. It talks about a reality that we are all aware of, or at least we should be, a prostitute and addict. Is this a cliché? Was already done? Well, yes. Many of us are already tired of this subject but we can not say that it not affect us, that every time  a work with this subject it's not different, it's a different approach, a different view. At first sight we are  shocked with the lack of any modesty to the her intimacy. A book of a life, so perfectly described.  Every one of us have something destructive in their lives, we all have our addictions, our fears.

 

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