DATE: September 25, 2009

Jed Fielding at Andrea Meislin Gallery


Fielding's photographs of the blind children he met at schools in Mexico City are not in the tradition of photojournalistic muckraking. Like his terrific earlier series from the streets of Naples, these images are vivacious, audacious, and in your face.


ImageJed Fielding, Mexico City #142, 2001. Courtesy of Andrea Meislin Gallery
His subjects are not pitiable victims; they're rambunctious, apparently happy kids at play, responding to Fielding's attention with curiosity and delight. The best of the work was made at close range, where that connection was most tangible, and young faces fill the frames with fragile, vivid life.

Read the complete review in The New Yorker.





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