The Grisly Dead People Pictures of Fernando Brito

These days, there’s no shortage of grisly images coming out of Mexico thanks to the brutal and ever-present War on Drugs. But Brito’s work stands out because he seems to treat the cadavers as one with the landscape. There is a certain sense of…

via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/fernando-brito-1

I realized that photographs in the papers do not withstand the test of time. For that to happen, a photo has to be entered in a contest and turn some heads. But really, my interest has never been to win as much as it has been to show what is happening. I focused on putting my photographs in galleries, recontextualizing them as art, and seeing what happened from there.