French photographer Thomas Rousset and graphic designer Raphaël Verona took a trip to Bolivia to encounter a magical world of doctors, spiritual healers and medicine men. They got to know strange rites and rituals, facing some ancient mythologies. Rousset and Verona created a book out of the material they’ve collected, emphasizing the tension between old and new, good and evil, spiritual and physical that appears very fascinating. The book ‘Waska Tatay’ is available now from IDPURE.
The duo comment on their approach: "All our images are staged, some of them clearly demonstrating a theatrical dimension, in the lighting, the staging of characters, etc. Others suggest they were taken on the spot; as snapshot. We wanted, through the mixture of these two 'languages', to create an ambiguity between fiction and reality, specific to a literary genre: 'The magic realism', which by the way; was born on the South American continent."
Waska Tatay, Raphaël Verona / Thomas Rousset, 144 pages, 22.5 x 30, relié (anglais/français/espagnol)