Michael Ackerman - Half Life - 2011

Michael Ackerman’s photographs, taken in Poland, Cuba, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere, resist easy categorization. They do not depict reality, but draw us into nightmare visions: desert landscapes blinded by clouds of ash, a train window scratched by absent hands… This is a hallucinatory constellation of images of exile and ghosts, where places and people engulf us in the same dark aura. “Half-Life” pulls the viewer into an extreme experience that shaped it.