9-TRIBUTE TO PEDRO VALTIERRA

PEDRO VALTIERRA

Rarámuris

This is a selection from the photo-report "The right to live and die in peace, the last legacy of the Tarahumaras", published in the newspaper La Jornada in October 1994.

The photographer visited the communities of Choguita, Creel and Guachochi, in the state of Chihuahua. That year, like many others in the Sierra Tarahumara, the droughts and the impoverished soil added to the generalized marginalization and the processes of plundering of their territory, causing a severe famine.

But what Valtierra wanted to capture was not the tragedy, but the strength of this people and the pride of being Rarámuri that is expressed in their eyes. This is the people that resists with rooted dignity and only asks for respect and peace. Capturing that essence is the challenge of photojournalism, says Valtierra.

Pedro Valtierra / Cuartoscuro

Photographer since 1972 and creator of the Cuartoscuro photojournalism agency in 1986.

Fifty years of experience reinforce his commitment to society because when carrying a weapon as powerful as the camera, it is essential to carry out serious and responsible journalistic work that records what happens in daily life, something that not only applies to his work, but also He instills it in other photographers and collaborators of the Cuartoscuro agency and in the workshops he teaches in the media and universities.

Since 1984 Pedro Valtierra began the project that materialized in 1986 when he founded the Cuartoscuro agency, which aims to inform, through quality image, in an objective, timely and truthful manner. From the beginning, he proposed an innovative line of work that has made this photojournalism agency the most important in Mexico.

8- TANIA CANDIANI ( Cromática)

TANIA CANDIANI

Iáname, syoname, sitákame (Cromática), 2018

Cromática is a project by Tania Candiani that began in 2015. It is made up of series that start from the idea of synesthesia to establish different relationships and organizational models of sensory associations. In this project, the rescue of traditions is seen as a vehicle for the preservation of memory and, therefore, of the different techniques applied in crafts, such as in textile work.

The conceptual epicenter of Cromática is the use of colorants that, in parallel, refer to three of the kingdoms of nature. Red, from the animal kingdom with the grana cochineal, indigo blue, from the Indigofera bush or Xiquilite (in Nahuatl) and mineral pigments such as chrome yellow. These three elements allow the deployment of a whole range of disciplines based on the use, application and connections that are established in the dialogues that take place between technology, understanding and thought.

Iáname, syoname, sitákame is a work that is part of Cromática. For this particular serie at Fundación MARSO, the artist made, in collaboration with three Rarámuri weavers and seamstresses from one of the settlements in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, three typical costumes (but with synthetically dyed fabrics) based on a dialogue about the meaning of colors in the Rarámuri worldview. Thus, the skirts, which are normally sewn to sell or wear, become ethereal elements, repositories of reflections about their ancestral legacy.