They recognize the legacy of the Human Rights Photography Contest with an exhibition

2023-06-17 01:28:34

For six years the National Photography Contest “Human Rights” recognized the work of photojournalists who have focused their lens on capturing the injustices that still exist in many parts of Mexicoas well as other instances where freedom is exercised beyond discrimination.

Organized by the Ministry of Culture of Coahuila (SC), in coordination with the agency darkroomthis contest stood out on the national scene until 2021, its last editionbefore budget cuts affected its realization.

The sample seeks to be a reminder of the value of this project and its scope. PHOTO: OMAR SAUCEDO.

This Thursday, in recognition of these works and the total effort that such a project represented, the Museum of Graphic Arts (MAG) opened the exhibition “Time to think in community: Memory of the National Photography Contest ‘Human Rights’”which will gather the winners of these editions in its gallery until the end of the year.

“This exhibition is especially important, because it is a continuous effort, for six years, of a contest that was a watershed at the national level, in which more than 5,000 photographers participated and that allowed Coahuila to present the way in which from art you can capture a moment that violates us all”, shared during the inaugural event the Director of Cultural Animation of the SC, Salvador Alvarez de la Fuente.

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The exhibition, which will be accompanied over the next few months by parallel activities related to the theme of human rights, is also a invitation to the authorities to recover this effort in future state administrationsas shared Ramiro Riveradirector of the MAG and of the direction of Visual Arts of the SC.

The pieces were winners of the 6 editions of the contest. PHOTO: OMAR SAUCEDO.

“It is very important that there are these types of things that indicate what is happening in our community and outside of our privileges and it is also a way of attesting to what has been done not only in this administration but in past ones, all directions that have had to do with this contest: the teacher Olga Margarita Davilateacher Edith Leijanow those of us who are in charge of the direction, the agency darkroomteacher Pedro Valtierra, people who, with their professionalism, knew how to support this project and exalted it to give it this reputation at a national level and for it to be for six years one of the most persecuted contests for what it delivered”, he commented.

Among the themes that these works reflect are the conditions in which they live low-income familieschild labor in places like the poppy fields in Guerrerothe gender violence and the freedom for gender expression.