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Fernell Franco’s Brooding Vision; ‘Amarrados’ (Bound) at the Americas Society

At a time when so much photography is very big and beautiful but its main subject would seem to be virtuosity, it is exciting to come upon a body of work that conveys an urgent need to say something. Fernell Franco’s Amarrados (Bound) at the Americas Society through Dec. 12, 2009 clearly grew out of Franco’s necessity to tell a more complex story than allowed by his day job as a photojournalist for several Colombian newspapers.