アメリカとメキシコの国境に流れる川、リオ・ブラボー。 移民達が停泊する場所、空白の時間と場所の物語。 宙に浮いた移住の時間。 [移民]という言葉だけでは想像がつかない、多種多様な物語の断片。 どんな人達が、どんな場所で、どんな音楽を聴いて、どんな部屋で。 本書は、スペインを拠点に活動するコロンビア人フォトグラファー、フェリペ・ロメロ・ベルトラン（Felipe Romero Beltrán）の作品集です。 2025年2月から5月までスペイン・マドリードの「Fundación MAPFRE」における展覧会に伴い刊行されました。 10才でギャングになったサルバドールからの移民ドミニク・ベルムデス（Dominick Bermúdez）によるエッセイが心に迫る。 その他思想家アルバート・コルビ（Albert Corbí）、アーティストのアレハンドラ・アラゴン（Alejandra Aragón）によるテキストとともに、作者へのインタビューが添えられています。 希望と絶望、切迫と停滞、矛盾を抱えた現実の中における瞑想のような写真集です。 FUNDATION MAPFRE LOOSE JOINT hardcover 240 x 295 mm 168 pages 2025 Bravo situates itself in the liminal space of the Rio Bravo, a site of perpetual tension and migration where identity and geography intersect. Focusing on a 270-kilometre stretch of the river, Romero Beltrán’s Bravo constructs an elusive visual narrative where the river itself becomes a silent protagonist, shaping the lives of those who approach it but rarely appearing in the frame. Through stark portraits, austere interiors, and scarred landscapes, Bravo captures the suspended time of migration as his subjects wait, sometimes for years, in the shadow of an uncertain crossing. Romero Beltrán's signature style is precise in the pursuit of a political reality, where meticulously produced portraiture both reveals and conceals the resilience, exhaustion and hope of the migrant experience, alongside the muted delicacy of Romero Beltrán's interiors, where a speaker, a mattress, a red-painted table become loaded with symbolic weight. Divided into three chapters—Endings, Bodies, and Breaches—Romero Beltrán’s inscrutable documentary approach challenges the semiotics of classification, enclosure, definition, and identification in his visual aesthetics that mirror the suppressed and controlled notions of identity at the border. Also included within Bravo is El Cruce, an audiovisual work that underscores the river’s dual role as a life source and militarized boundary through scenes of baptism, fishing, and migrant stories. With accompanying texts by Salvadoran migrant Dominick Bermúdez, thinker Albert Corbí, and artist Alejandra Aragón, as well as an interview with the artist, Bravo is an urgent and poetic meditation on a border defined by contradictions—where hope, despair, movement, and stillness converge.