Actors of Mexican Action B-Movies.
Since the 1980's there has been a production of Action B-movies on drugdealing, contraband, and migration issues. In the last years, these productions have focused in the world of druglords and the depiction of the current Mexican "narcoculture". In such low-budget films known as "Narcofilms", some professional actors feature in the movie, but the most part are non-professional actors who actually pay a fee to be part of the movie. This is a way of collecting money for the production.
Bio
Fabio Cuttica is a documentary photographer based in Tijuanaâ??Mexico.
Fabio, born in Rome (1973), grew up in Colombia and Peru until his teenage years, then moving to Italy. After he completed his studies on photography in the European Institute of Design and Visual Arts in Rome. He initiated his own practice in Rome, shooting local and daily news for some italian newspapers.
Such an exposure deepened even more his interest for documentary photography and journalism.
In 2001, he became staff photographer of Contrasto Agency (Italy). Since then, he has mostly focused his work in Latin America, documenting social, cultural, health and human rights issues of its reality. These works have been published on many magazines such as, Stern, Geo Italia, L' Espresso, Il Corriere della Sera, Le Courrier International, Sunday Times Magazine, le Monde and others.
Fabio has documented the 2001â??2002 crisis in Argentina; Lula´s arrival to power as Brazil´s president and the impact in the Brazilian society in 2003. During the year 2004, he works on a personal project "La prima cosa" (the first thing) about the difficulties that some poor families in Italy find trying to have a house and decide to occupy abandoned houses. The project was awarded with the 2005 Canon Award as the best project.
In 2005, he decides to go back to Colombia after almost 20 years of absence. He establishes in Bogota as a correspondent for Contrasto. There, he travels around the Andean area, developing reportages in Bolivia and Perù for different European media, but mostly focusing in Colombia and the consequences of the ongoing and forgotten armed conflict.
During the 2006â??2008 period, his work is concentrated in Venezuela, which main aim was to document the social changes and aspects of the Venezuelan reality under the government of Hugo Chavez.
Since 2010, Fabio and his family live in Mexico, where he has documented aspects of the conflict provoked by the ongoing war for territory control between drug cartelsâ?? and the State. At present, he is working on a longâ??term project called â??Dark Passageâ??, about this long and difficult odissey that thousands of illegal migrants â??majority Centralâ??American and Mexicans, face everyday along the way to reach the Northernâ?? Mexican border to, finally, cross it.
