{"id":46,"date":"2019-08-15T21:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2019-12-10T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:02:15","slug":"the-caribbean-coast-with-love-and-dignity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/the-caribbean-coast-with-love-and-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caribbean Coast, with Love and Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THE CARIBBEAN COAST, WITH LOVE AND DIGNITY<\/div>\n
Claudia Gordillo & Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Alv\u00e1rez, Nicaragua<\/div>\n

Nicaragua\u2019s Caribbean coast represents the dark side of our identity, little known and mysterious as it is. This great sanctuary shelters a different, exuberant culture, which is marginalized and forgotten, and yet the region is also coveted, threatened by plans and projects that have nonetheless failed to materialize: damaged by man, subjected to the fury of nature, affected by poverty, and stranded in a timeless torpor.<\/p>\n

Claudia Gordillo and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez painstakingly selected over one hundred photographs that document the landscape, but also, and more importantly, the inhabitants of Nicaragua\u2019s Caribbean coast. The depth and elegance of the images reveal the photographers\u2019 personal relationship with this region and its culture, their understanding of and empathy for it. Indeed, the area still conserves an age-old Afro-Anglo-Caribbean cultural tradition, influenced over time by several indigenous ethnic groups and the mestizo (indigenous and Spanish) culture of the Nicaraguan Pacific.<\/p>\n

In spite of the fact that Nicaragua\u2019s Caribbean coast has long suffered from extreme poverty, marginalization, and various forms of aggression, these photographs still capture the local inhabitants\u2019 muted yet persistent optimism, based on an inner strength and dignity. The basic, untainted honesty of people who have remained unexposed to chronic, systemic corruption. Their cultural traditions persist, and so do their customs and sense of civility, though they have obviously seen better days.<\/p>\n

Excerpted from a text by Alejandro Ar\u00f3stegui in Estampas del Caribe nicarag\u00fcense (Universidad Centroamericana, 2000).<\/p>\n

CLAUDIA GORDILLO<\/div>\n
(b. 1954) Managua, Nicaragua<\/div>\n

An eyewitness to the struggle against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua, Claudia Gordillo documented the conflicts and combats of the Ej\u00e9rcito Popular Sandinista. She worked as a war correspondent for the newspaper Barricada<\/i> and belonged to the documentary photography movement of the 1980s. Gordillo received an honorable mention at the 3rd edition of the Bienal de Artes Visuales Nicarag\u00fcense in 2001 and the photography award of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994. In collaboration with Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez, she has documented the Afro-mestizo culture of the Nicaraguan coastal region, which resulted in an exhibition and a book of the same name, Estampas del Caribe Nicarag\u00fcense<\/i>, in the year 2000. Gordillo was granted the Orden de la Independencia Cultural Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo in 2008. She currently works at the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroam\u00e9rica, where she has curated several exhibitions.<\/p>\n

MAR\u00cdA JOS\u00c9 \u00c1LVAREZ<\/div>\n
(b. 1955) Managua, Nicaragua<\/div>\n

An independent filmmaker and photographer, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez has produced a body of images connected with the world of women, the Sandinista uprising, and migration. She is a cofounder of the Instituto de Cine Nicarag\u00fcense and a member of the Asociaci\u00f3n Nicarag\u00fcense de Cinematograf\u00eda. As cofounder of Luna Films \u2014an independent film and video production company\u2014 she has directed numerous documentaries, including Blanco Organd\u00ed<\/i> (2000), No todos los sue\u00f1os han sido so\u00f1ados<\/i> (1995), and Lady Marshall<\/i> (1994). In collaboration with Claudia Gordillo she undertook the project Estampas del Caribe Nicarag\u00fcense<\/i> (2000). In 2016, she presented the film Lubaraun (Al encuentro de\u2026)<\/i> at the 5th edition of the Festival de Cine Internacional Ind\u00edgena Gar\u00edfuna. She is currently the coordinator of \u00cdcaro, Festival Internacional de Cine en Centroam\u00e9rica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-proyecto-en.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}