Tomeu Coll - Badlands: Raised by Bones

160 pages
Text(s) by Tomeu Coll, Donna Ferrato, Celtia Traviesas
Photos by Tomeu Coll
23.2 x 16.9 cm 
Language: English
Hardcover 
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
2020

For more than a decade, while not travelling around the world, Tomeu Coll has captured the unfathomable and almost unreal territories of his island: Mallorca (Balearic Islands) in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.

Badlands is not too far away. It’s located just a few meters away from where the turbines of airplanes, crowded with tourists that only search for sun and beaches, pass by skimming the surface. Although they land very close, most people won’t even see it. The stories from the Badlands float, like those of every suburb, apart from what seems important to the rest of the world. The Badlands will never be seen in official pictures, tourist guides or postcards from the island. It’s what the locals call a »lloc malsa«, drowned with darkness, fear, malaria and its own past. In addition, it’s also his home, the photographer’s house, the weirdest and most complicated place, one where it’s hard to survive and return. A place impossible to leave completely.« (From the text by Celtia Traviesas)