The story’s subtitle reflected Smith’s ambivalence: “Africa’s misery turns saintly Albert Schweitzer into a driving taskmaster
The ambiguous relations between power and represent- whether in the form of Dutch colonial patrol notes from the 1930s
dogs of all sorts and people much the same
a setting for the newlywed
The photographs he took there would go on to form the first part of one of his most celebrated bodies of work: Circus
Fine Print: Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, 1993 Exhibition Poster The story’s subtitle reflected Smith’sWebb began his career as a photographer in the 1970s, making pictures of the American social landscape in the streets of New England and New York, working exclusively in black and white. In the preface to The Suffering of Light, he describes having reached a kind of dead end in photography, as well as an eagerness to explore new territories. That year, in 1975, inspired by Graham Greenes novel, The Comedians, he jumped on a plane to Port au Prince to