THE GRINGO PROJECT
In an attempt to escape the West, the Russian/ American photographer Bezzubov (b. 1965) travelled from the Himalayas to the Amazon basin. But everywhere he encountered the West again, in the form of fast food restaurants, brand name products, cinema advertising, and especially in the form of tourists, in search of places and cultures that had not yet been corrupted by ‘modern times’ – still in an untouched state which they themselves were helping to destroy. THE GRINGO PROJECT (1997-2001) is a series of portraits of people in places where they really don’t belong.
