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Our Food has gone to Woods Hole, Mass.

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The Indigenous Photography Archive is an artistic project by and for indigenous photographers in Chiapas. AFI has four main activities: education, collection, outreach, and research.

Education: LOK´TAMAYACH directs most of the educational activities, which begin with basic instruction about camera use and continue with a program of workshops to improve technique and develop individual projects.

Collection: The base of the collection, which is housed at AFI, is made up of the photographers’ negatives, with approximately 75,000 images, the majority of which are color, with a growing area of black and white work. The photographers are not only forming this collection for their present-day communities, but so that their descendants will have their own visual history. Among the many themes are portraits, food, and fiestas.

Outreach: Activities include exhibitions and publications as well as slide presentations and panel discussions.

Research: The indigenous photographers as well as many international, outside researchers consult AFI’s collection and frequently request permission to use images for academic ends – books, theses, articles, videos, etc.

Last Fall the The New York Times (registration required) and International Herald Tribune wrote about us. There is also an article about us on the travel web site Mexicanwave and links to our site from the Hemispheric Institute and Kinal Winik.

July 2006

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