In the fifty-seven photographs of Curtains and Holes, Peruvian photographer Pablo Hare (b. 1972 in Lima) explores the outskirts of the city of Lima. His vision of the landscape, observed over a period of three years, has been nourished by his reading and rereading of literature about the violence that burst forth in Peru some forty years ago and that still dominates, in one way or another, everyday life in the country.

The underlying premise of the book is that the landscape itself is haunted by the silent specter of violence and of death.