In the context of the exhibit “Urban Warfare”, presented at Géopolis Brussels until February 11th, we talked to Italian photographer Alfredo Bosco, about his project “Forgotten Guerrero (Mexico)” and his career as a photojournalist.

“I grew up in an area that is unfortunately under the mafia, and there is a general sense of disillusion. In Acapulco (Mexico), it has been 10 years already that it has been one of the deadliest cities in the world, and the situation is not getting better. (…) So people are leaving knowing this is the daily life, under violence, and things will not get better in a few years.”

After studying photography in Milan, Alfredo Bosco co-founded a magazine devoted to urban photography. In 2010, he covered the consequences of the earthquake and the cholera outbreak in Haiti. Between 2010 and 2020, Alfredo Bosco covered different crises such as criminality in Caracas, Venezuela and the civil war in Donbass, Ukraine. In 2015, he was selected by LensCulture as one of the world’s top 50 emerging talents.

For his project ‘Forgotten Guerrero’, he documented violence, fear and and resistance in the Mexican state of Guerrero in light of the ongoing drug war.

Presentation: Nadine Vermeulen

Image © Alfredo Bosco