Quito —

Photographs from Quito, Ecuador: digital capture.

The project documents social upheaval in Quito, Ecuador in the summer of 2015 - protests led by Ecuador's Indigenous Resistance and supported by a great many sympathizers. Simultaneously it explores the spaces representative of the emerging consumer culture and middle class mobility - the spoils of economic growth directly resulting from the exploitation of Indigenous lands and communities for the extraction of natural resources. The project therefore explores a city in the midst of social, economic, and political crisis - in which the innocuous consumption of middle class commercial and infrastructural amenities is in fact as politically charged as the demonstrations in the street.

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