CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/15/2018

Joel Meyerowitz on 'Pancho Saula: Madagascar'

"Madagascar is not a travel book about the beauties of this place or its people. I opened this slender volume and was immediately taken into the personal, poetic and very tactile experience that the artist had when he was there. The work is delicately balanced, frame by frame, to offer the reader the intimate sensations that Pancho Saula had: the light, the textures, the spaces that we too might notice—even things as insubstantial as the weight of shadows under the tropical sun. He subtly suggests as well the kinds of lives lived there in all their quotidian and understated simplicity. But what is truly beautiful to me is the delicately whispered ambiguity of meaning that the photographs carry."
—Joel Meyerowitz