Imperial County - Hardcover

Borges, Lars

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3868287817 ISBN 13: 9783868287813

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, 2017

Synopsis

Imperial is the youngest and poorest county in California and one of the main producers of winter vegetables, salads, grain, and alfalfa in the United States. The demand for water is enormous - old water rights ensure Imperial County vast quantities of water from the Colorado River. Here, hard-working people, especially Hispanics, labour in the fields to the point of exhaustion, while the homeless, the displaced, and the downshifters live the flip-side of the American Dream. Berlin-based photographer Lars Borges dedicates his book project to these people in an effort to point out the effects of unbridled global capitalism on humans and nature.

About this title

About the Author

Lars Borges is a photographer based in Berlin and London. Among his clients are adidas, Dior, H&M, Nike, Volkswagen, Blackberry and Microsoft, his work has been published in GQ, ELLE, Esquire, Neon, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Stern, ZEITmagazin.

Enno Kaufhold is a photographer, teacher, photo historian, curator and writer based in Berlin.

From the Back Cover

Imperial is the youngest and poorest county in California. Although located in the Colorado Desert on the San Andreas Fault and, with temperatures of up to 50°C and an average annual precipitation of only 75 milimeters, marked by life-threatening conditions, it is one of the main producers of winter vegetables, salads, grain, and alfalfa in the USA. The demand for water is enormous – old water rights ensure Imperial County vast quantities of water from the Colorado River, which is pumped via a network of channels and pipelines into an area as large as the entire metropolitan region of Los Angeles: the largest irrigation system on the North American continent. The unemployment rate is the second highest in the USA – incomes are at the lower end of the scale in otherwise wealthy California. Here, hard-working people, especially Hispanics, labour in the fields to the point of exhaustion, while the homeless, the displaced, and downshifters live the flip-side of the American Dream.
With his impressive landscapes and portraits, the Berlin-based photographer Lars Borges dedicates his book project to these people in an effort to point out the effects of unbridled global capitalism on man and nature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3868287817
• ISBN 13: 9783868287813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1