The Light of the Beast

The Light of the Beast is the culmination of six years’ work on migrants who leave Central America, cross Mexico and arrive in the United States as their final destination. Since 2007, British-Mexican artist Pablo Allison has been trying to understand life and its complexities by documenting migration and its consequences. What began as a series of illegal journeys on freight trains in Mexico, with no clear destination, ended up photographing people fleeing extreme violence and poverty.