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Counting on Graciela Iturbide´s advice
The Photography Community Tlaxcala Collective will exhibit their work at the University of Harvard
February 10, 2016The Ministry of Culture of the federal government, through the Department of Popular Cultures, organizes the exhibition, the Colectivo Comunitario de Fotografía de San Pablo del Monte (Photography Community San Pablo del Monte Collective) Tlaxcala, coordinated by México, Cultura para la armonía (Mexico, Culture for Harmony) program and supported by the Tlaxcala Institute of Culture. The exhibition will be hold at the Faculty of Law at Harvard University
The exhibition consists of 52 images that reflect the identity of San Pablo del Monte community, is the result of work done by nine teenagers and young people of the town, aged between 13 and 22 years. The Photography Community Collective began in February 2014, with the assistance of photographer Alfredo Martínez who has worked permanently, since then, held by Alma Janai Calvario, also native from San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxcala.
The nine members of the Photographic Collective of San Pablo del Monte have obtained permanent training, and professional advice from the photographers Graciela Iturbide and Elsa Escamilla. They have learned the essential photographic techniques to portray the essence of their community: traditions, everday life, characters, social problems and the complex role of women in Tlaxcala.
This training and advice have empowered the group, which represents a key element designed with a long-term vision to achieve the main objective of the program: to strengthen the identity and rebuild the social structure of abused communities of the country through culture and art, encouraging children and young people, especially, to make use of their free time in permanent artistic creation workshops, with the ability to become creators, not just spectators of their reality.
Based on culture as a tool for social transformation, the Ministry of Culture and local governments have impulsed across the country the creation of 23 community groups in visual, performing and graphic arts, as well as film, radio and music. They are permanent working groups, led by professional instructors, who take courses and workshops, make staging or exhibitions. These groups work within communities and the voluntary participation of their citizens, mostly children and young people at risk, which in this case is related to people trafficking.
After seven national exhibitions in the states of Tlaxcala, Guerrero, Puebla and Mexico City, the Photography Community San Pablo del Monte Collective, Tlaxcala, and pioneer of the program, Mexico, Culture for Harmony, will present his first show worldwide, invited by Harvard University, through the Association of Mexican Students at Harvard and supported by the Faculty of Law at Harvard University.
To strengthen the project it has received the support from the Lawyers for Human Rights of the Harvard Law School, the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, the Directorate General of Educational and Cultural Cooperation and the Consulate of Mexico in Boston of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government of the State of Tlaxcala, through the Tlaxcala Institute of Culture, the Image Center and Young Leadership Foundation. Thanks to the common effort for the first time, one of the 23 groups of artistic creation of the Mexico, Culture for Harmony program will present their work outside Mexico.
The photo exhibition will be open from February 14 to 27 at the Wasserstein building of the Faculty of Law at Harvard University, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 at the WCC Milstein East hall.
On February 25 the photographers of San Pablo del Monte will visit the exhibition at 12:00 hours, where they will have a working day.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
