drawings

In my previous life, the one I had before embracing a camera, I loved comics. During a recent visit at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum I saw some pencil drawings, from an artist whose name I couldn’t recall, that really fascinated me.

The Arrival © Shaun Tan

Luck wanted that, among my Christmas presents, there was also a book from Shaun Tan, the artist whose work I admired in Amsterdam.

The book tells without words the story of an immigrant moving to a new world, you can see his books by yourself following this link. The theme that this book touches, migration, is common in photojournalism, so I think that it might be interesting to have an alternate and refreshing view on a known subject. In black and white.