![]() ![]() Between then and now, Sam has gotten his Ph.D. The rugs returned to Oaxaca with me when I moved here in 2009. As I’ve mentioned before, I met Sam and his family during my first visit to Oaxaca in 2007 and (of course) bought two tapetes to bring back to the San Francisco Bay Area. The exposition and sale will run through the last Guelaguetza performance (August 1), so today’s mission was just to do an initial reconnaissance - to check out new vendors, see what I absolutely cannot live without, and connect with some of my favorite vendors.įirst up were the artisans in Llano Park, where I rendezvoused (stall #70) with my old (though he’s young) friend, Samuel Bautista Lazo, from Teotitlán del Valle. Not all the signs are in place, but the artisan vendors are. 1, took first prize in the Flor Inmortal Adulto category!Īrtisans from the eight regions of Oaxaca have moved their hand-crafted textiles, pottery, wood carvings, jewelry, and more into the previously mentioned booths near the top of the Andador Turístico (Alcalá/walking street) and Paseo Juárez el Llano (Llano Park). To see the Noche de Rabanos 2013 entry by Moisés Ruíz Sosa, click HERE.īy the way, the “Elaborando Artesanía, Plasmando Sueños: ‘Teotitlán del Valle, Tierra de Dioses’” by Raymundo Sánchez Monserrat Maricela, which I wrote about in Noche de Rabanos, pt. ![]() And the winner was Moisés Ruíz Sosa, with his dyed cornhusk depiction of Día de Muertos on the Costa Chica of Oaxaca.ĭescendants of slaves, the Afromexicano population of Oaxaca is located in 16 municipalities, with 11 of these municipalities located in the Costa Chica, Oaxaca’s far western coastal region, bordering the state of Guerrero.ĭuring Day of the Dead, the Danza de los Diablos (Dance of the Devils) is performed in these communities.ĭancers wear devil masks, and are led by a colonial ranch foreman with a whip, who “struts around, while his buxom ‘white’ wife – played by a black man – flirts outrageously with the ‘devils’ and even the audience.” 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. Oaxaca seems to invite and inspire creativity. ![]()
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