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New Fellowship and Website The Alicia Patterson foundation awarded me a fellowship this past year in order to complete my Caña Brava project. In addition to finishing the photographic record, I have slowly been adding articles, oral histories, multimedia and other narrative forms, in order to create a comprehensive website intended to focus all the initiatives concerning the bateys in one single space on the web, thus facilitating research and more ably advertising the need for change.
The Dominican Batey, though still in process, has been launched, and I will be soliciting content for it throughout the coming year. The site combines scholarly and journalistic information from various sources and serves as a complete guide to the bateys. It is the one stop shop for people who want to learn about sugar in the Caribbean.
Tips and an Interview The tireless Wayne Yang has recently published some of my photo tips and a long interview on his blog, Eight Diagrams. The whole thing is supposed to be up on Take Great Pictures eventually as well, but the piece was entirely Wayne's idea from start to finish.
New Web Logs I have recently launched two new blogs. One is entitled The Spark of Accident, which presents essays on photography. It is wide ranging and eclectic, with no particular aim other than to satisfy my curiosity about things. The other, More a Question than a Reply, presents journalistic essays and chronicles that mix text and photos. With the recent addition of a "Best Photo Column" to POYi's line-up, it would appear that publishing via blogs is now a legitimate practice.
New Article: El Camino de los Negros Revista Geografica (Sept/Aug 2006) has published both text and photographs from my ongoing project, El Camino de los Negros, in a beautiful ten page spread. For those of you who are not familiar with this splendid magazine, it is published in Chile and deals mostly with Chilean themes, but in each issue they dedicate a portion to a story from outside their borders. The quality is on par with National Geographic, and the magazine generally entertains similar themes. You can read the article on my blog here.
Exhibition: Los Olvidados With the support of practically every organization working in the Dominican bateys, or sugar colonies, and with expert promotion and planning from Plan International, this exhibition of photographs documenting the lives of Haitian and Dominican cane cutters ran for five months at the Academy of Sciences in Santo Domingo's Colonial City. It moved thereafter to the leading educational institution in the country, The Carol Morgan School, where the photographer met with students to discuss its themes. In July it appeared at the Musée de canne-a-sucre in Porte au Prince, Haiti. Under the guidance of FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) it is now to be combined with the work of Walter Astrada to present a more comprehensive view of Haitian migrant laborers and will return this Fall to the Centro Cultural de España in the Colonial City as well as travel to Santiago's prestigious Centro León. The exhibition is funded by a grant from the Open Society, the purpose of which is "to present the work to the public in innovative and appropriate ways, ensuring that the work gains critical exposure and also has the greatest chance to stimulate constructive social change." It will also become the subject of a multimedia slideshow to be made available in a variety of media (CD-Rom, podcasts, and website). The article accompanying the show can be found here.
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