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“Graffiti has been a great educator for me. I’ve never seen it as destructive”
Pablo Allison Writ large: the message in Allison’s graffiti and his photography is clear – love conquers fear GEORGE MARSHALL I t’s midnight, and Pablo Allison is clinging to the top of a fastmoving freight train as it speeds south through the Mexican desert. Heavy rain batters his body; it’s freezing cold. The train shakes as it rushes noisily on at 100kph, meaning Allison can barely adjust his grip during what will be a 10-hour journey, for fear of falling off into the darkness. Travelling illegally on this industrial network is fraught with dangers – it’s also common for these vast trains to derail, or for criminal gangs to come aboard – but it’s still the safest of the few travel options open to migrants moving across Mexico. And photographer and graffiti artist Allison has been doing these trips with them for more than three years now, to document and better understand the experiences of some of the tens of thousands of migrants who pass through the country every year on their way to the United States. Allison began riding these trains in 2016 with the aim of shooting the inaccessible landscapes along Mexico’s private train routes. “But I realised I couldn’t turn my lens away from the migrants I met,” he says. “I’m fascinated by the perseverance, the strength, how people do these extraordinarily difficult journeys. The motivation people have to escape, to seek a better life, is astonishing.” Most migrants Allison meets are escaping poverty, violence or both. There are men, women, children, young and old, from all sorts of backgrounds and situations, from all over the world, battling the odds and often treacherous conditions to make a new life. “People come from as far as Iraq, Syria, Iran Bangladesh, and find themselves in South America,” he says. “Then they embark on a journey through various countries, cross the notorious lawless jungle of north-west Colombia, the Darién Gap, and then somehow get to Panama. Once they get to Mexico, they still have so much to do… Those of us living moderately comfortable lives should learn from these people, rather than demonising or criminalising them.” When Allison meets The Red Bulletin, he’s far from Mexico. It’s a rainy February day in Hastings on England’s south coast, and Allison – dressed in a red T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan ‘FUCK TRUMP’ – is in the UK to run a workshop on migration at a street-art event and spray-paint a wall in town with a poem by a Guatemalan migrant he travelled with. In recent years, Allison has taught workshops in several countries, in art galleries and refugee centres, using his skills in both photography and graffiti to reach a range of audiences. A book of some of his photographic work comes out later this month. But Allison isn’t pushing a political agenda. THE RED BULLETIN 45
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