![]() ![]() One of the other categories of entries is Totomoxtle Decorado. In addition, you can also see the work of their mentor, Mary Ellen Mark, that is part of the Colección Toledo/INBA.Īs I previously explained, Noche de Rabanos isn’t just about radishes. If you are currently in Oaxaca or plan to be before the exhibition closes on April 7, 2017, I highly recommend paying it a visit the images from each of the seven photographers will reveal Oaxaca in a new and thought-provoking light. With her in mind, we come back – to pursue the work we started here, to become the photographers she believed we could be, to honor her passion and, perhaps, to find hope and inspiration in it. Because of her we became better photographers. ![]() Some of us have been coming to Oaxaca for decades. We live in New York, in Los Angeles, in Iceland and in San Francisco. Some of us make more interpretative images. Some of work in a documentary or journalistic style. Some of us are amateurs who simply love photography. Some of us are professionals who work for newspapers or do commercial work. We seven photographers are all different. In the words of Tim Porter, spoken at the opening of the exhibition on January 20, 2017: (L->R) Björn Árnason, Lori Barra, Ina Bernstein, Chae Kihn, James Carbone, Tim Porter, Jody Watkins, and translator, February 25, 2017. I wasn’t the only one who blinked away tears. They also offered glimpses into Mark’s playful side and wit, along with how meaningful her friendship was to each of them and their profound sense of loss at her passing in 2015. She was “ a dedicated and demanding teacher” who pushed them to know themselves in order to authentically see and capture the people and places on the other side of the lens. The exhibition opened on January 20, 2017, but it was the coming together by the seven and their very personal remarks during the artist reception and panel discussion on February 25 that revealed the impact Mary Ellen Mark had on their lives and work. Now, seven photographers, Björn Árnason, Lori Barra, Ina Bernstein, James Carbone, Chae Kihn, Tim Porter, and Jody Watkins, are honoring their late mentor with an exhibition, Nuestra Oaxaca, at the Centro Fotográfico. Thus, for twenty years distinguished photographer, Mary Ellen Mark, who “considered Oaxaca her second home,” brought students here and conducted workshops at the Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Not easy, it is painful and nothing is guaranteed, but it’s time to get up like a herd, a coalition of circus figures and relearn how to fight … Texto: María Teresa Garzón Martínez.Oaxaca seems to invite and inspire creativity. ![]() At what point do we begin to fight for our lives when we give life? And, of course, brave women appear who, drop by drop, carry water in their beaks. Ours is life, as simple as that, not survival: living above life. “We were not born to survive,” Audre Lorde, the black poet, told us in his ear. It burns because they have set it on fire in an attempt to end all possibility of life, of believing, of breathing, of playing, of pleasure. We do not know how we managed to get up again, open our wings once more, receiving the sun on the face and the moon in the belly. We lost a couple of feathers, a couple of loves and the other time some of us scraped a leg. Planning in the air is not our greatest quality. When we fly with a drop in our beaks we sometimes water and sometimes we crash. Only one drop I can carry in my beak, but I’m doing my thing.” To which the hummingbird declares: “It’s true. ![]() Then, the unbelieving deer says: “You can not put out the fire: your beak is too small and you cannot get enough water”. A deer stops and asks: “What are you doing? You go towards the flames.”Īnd the hummingbird replies: “Yes, there is a lake”. The animals run desperate to escape the flames, but a hummingbird flies in the opposite direction. It’s a story that we rewrite or, better said, plagiarize, like almost everything. The hummingbird is a birdie native to the Abya Yala, the name given by the indigenous Kuna to America, and is present in images, myths, legends and oral narratives of many peoples, from the Rio Grande to Ushuaia.Ĭomrade Subcomandante Marcos showed us a story about a hummingbird. ![]()
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