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NOPHOTO?s collective photography project El último verano provides a fragmented, contradictory document to the deteriorating conditions of everyday life in times of crisis. In it, nine photographers turn their lenses toward portraits of downward mobility, precarity, and the growing phenomenon of emigration, as well as summer pleasures and moments of escape. Drawing from Lauren Berlant?s writings on the impasse in neoliberalism, I read how la crisis is sensed first in these photos in the subject?s affective attachments to perceptible losses and then in strategies for survival developed amid an ongoing crisis. Taking stock of the present at an impasse, I argue, is immersed in a strong sense of temporality for the present ungrounded by change?of nostalgia and return, of future projection, of escapist fantasy, of present anxieties for risk?and in the photographs, indexes for viewers other narratives on the crisis, in plural ways, that piece together a collective, shared circumstance in times of austerity. Key Words: documentary photography, financial, crisis, neoliberalism, temporality, affect, subjectivity.
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