in the gallery...
Chiapas
Exhibition from Refugia Guzmán Pérez, Ch’ol photographer from Chiapas Mexico
Side by Side Gallery is proud to present the online exhibition “From the Rural Community to the City- The Chol ethnic group in Chiapas, Mexico” -photographic works by Refugia Guzmán Pérez, a Ch’ol photographer from the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) and the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena (AFI) – Chiapas, Mexico. Read an introduction to the exhibition by... »
Exhibition from the Chiapas Photography Project & Archivo Fotográfico Indígena
Side by Side Gallery is proud to present an exhibition from the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) and the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena (AFI) – Chiapas, Mexico. Visit Side by Side Gallery – CPP/AFI exhibition to view the online exhibition (or follow links to Project Galleries on the Side By Side blog). Side by Side Project Galleries... »
Mundanzas: Migraciones Múltiples
The photographic exhibition Mundanzas: Migraciones Múltiples, which includes work from 4 photographers associated with AFI/CPP in Chiapas Mexico is opening in Mexico City this week and then in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico on the 21st of November 2009. Selected materials from the exhibition and catalogue can be seen online through the Museo... »
More info about the Chiapas Photography Project
This information is provided to augment the launch of an online exhibition of works from the Chiapas Photography Project and the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena in the Side by Side gallery. Click here to go to the exhibition. Since 1992, the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) has provided indigenous Maya peoples in Chiapas, Mexico with the opportunity... »
Women’s stories in women’s words (and pictures…)
In 2008 I collaborated with Rachel Breunlin from the Neighborhood Story Project (based in New Orleans, Louisiana USA) and Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation (based in Derby, Western Australia) on a collaborative writing and photography project which resulted in the book Singing Out – Aboriginal Ladies Stories of the North West Kimberley. The project aimed at documenting... »
Taller de Leñateros
About 5 blocks from where I am living in San Cristobal De Las Casas is the workshop (taller in spanish) of a wonderful collective of Mayan artists who publish, write, illustrate and bind their own books, including making the paper they print on out of local and recycled materials. I visited the workshop today, arriving... »
Digital photography & representing migration with AFI photographers
This week the AFI (Archivo Fotografico Indigena) came back from a 3 week summer vacation and they have hit the ground running making final preparations for a project they are participating in commissioned by Museo de Mujeres Artistas Méxicanas about diverse experiences of migracion. 5 women associated with AFI have been invited to develop... »
Intro to participatory video making in and around San Cristobal De Las Casas
Images in this post thanks to Indigenous Video Makers of the Southern Frontera Project CIESAS Sureste IN the town of San Cristobal de las Casas there is an astounding wealth of activities that are combining practices of collaborative ethnography (that is people documenting their own cultures and community, rather that this work... »
FOMMA – collaborative women’s theatre
This week, at the invitation of Doris Difarnecio, Director of the Centro Hemisférico/FOMMA in San Cristobal, I visited FOMMA and was introduced to a truly fascinating organization and set of projects. In a previous post I mentioned the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, which is based at NYU and has partnered with FOMMA (Fortaleza... »
What’s in a name?
Documenting the names of people in the AFI photos is not a priority here in Chiapas. Indeed, anonymity and confidentiality is a necessary part of the ethics of participatory photographic practice in the region. The naming of Indigenous subjects in photographic archives, has an entirely different meaning in a contemporary Australian context. »