The project “Magnum in Moscow” was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Magnum Photos Agency, as part of the Photo Biennale.

“I can only get to where I need to on foot. What else can this street photographer do, apart from walking and looking, waiting, talking, again looking and waiting, trying to convince himself that the unexpected, the unknown or the hidden core of the known lie just round the corner?".
Alex Webb, from his book “Under a Grudging Sun”.

“In the late 70s, I started taking coloured photos in Haiti and Mexico, countries of tropical light, where the intensive colour seems in some way to be rooted in the very culture; very different to the brownie-grey tones of my native New England. From the very start I was intrigued not only by the bright light and the flaring, often dominant colour but also the flutter of outdoor life in the tropics, life on verandas and the streets, and the incompleteness, the disharmony of the tropical world, where an autochthonous culture often receives unprompted changes from the culture of the north. After some time working in the Caribbean basin and Latin America I also realized that I was interested in border territories, like for example between the USA and Mexico. In other words those places where different cultures co-habit, sometimes peacefully and others hostilely.

The years went by and in a similar way I grew interested in Florida and southern USA, Western Europe and, not long ago, Istanbul (which is also in a way a border) and Cuba”.