Published by Ediciones Polígrafa. Text by Paul Ardenne, Fernando Castro, Justo Pastor Mellado.
Fernando Prats' Gran Sur project was inspired by Ernest Shackleton's newspaper advert soliciting recruits for his fateful Antarctic expedition. Through a compendium of photographs and archival materials, Prats' installation, recorded in this volume, draws out the implications of the blackly humorous advert to resonate with larger experiences of migration and dangerous travel.
