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Cristina de Middel
Midnight at the Crossroads
Cristina de Middel

Cristina de Middel. The arrival, 2018
Esù is one of the most enigmatic entities in the cosmogony of West African religions. He crossed the Ocean with the slave trade route, adapted to new territories and challenges that came with forced labour and lack of freedom.
“Midnight at the Crossroads” documents these transformations from its origin as a totem in Benin, then as a child in Cuba, in Brazil as a young seductive man, and finally becoming a wise old man in Haiti. Esù is the spirit of confusion and mutation, and his energy questions our certainties to make us doubt along the way and grow at the same time.
For 3 years, Cristina De Middel and Bruno Morais followed the path of Esù to build a document that comes as a reaction to the advance of Evangelical churches across Africa and South America that is challenging the survival of an endangered cultural heritage that adds substantial input to the very much needed non-official version of History.
Selected Works
Cristina de Middel
The blind guide
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The car of St. Lazarus
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The coming and the going
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The confusion
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The thousand sons
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The seducer
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Cristina de Middel
1975 (Spain)
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Cristina de Middel is a Spanish artist based in Alicante, Spain.
She trained in photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and later moved to Oklahoma to do a Master’s in Photography. In 2012, she self-published her first photography book Afronauts in which she recounts a Zambian space programme in South Africa.
She was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2013 and won the Infinity Award from the International Centre of Photography in the same year. In 2017, she received the Spanish National Photography Award for “re-designing the limits of the reality of photographic language.” That same year, she joined Magnum Photos, sponsored by the renowned photographer Martin Parr. In 2018, she was guest curator of the PhotoEspaña festival and organised six exhibitions that vindicate the playful. In 2022, she became the first Spanish woman to chair Magnum Photos.
Press + Articles
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Photographing Past Stereotype
The New York Times (article)
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Les Rencontres d'Arles review – cyborgs meet spiritualists at photography festival
The Guardian (article)