Patricia aridjis biography
- Patricia Aridjis spent over seven years on The Black Hours Project.
- Patricia Aridjis is a Mexican artist who was born in 1960.
- Patricia Aridjis.
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Patricia Aridjis: The Black Hours / Las Horas Negras
"Karla Liliana" 2005. Women's Prison "Reclusorio Oriente", Mexico City. © Patricia Aridjis
Patricia Aridjis spent over seven years on The Black Hours Project. She documented incarcerated women in the Mexican penitentiaries of Santa Martha Acatitla, Tepepan, “Reclusorio Norte & Oriente” and Michoacan Prison in Mexico City.
It is not only the photographs that Aridjis uses to tell the women’s stories with familiarity and sensitivity. Aridjis also compiled a video archive and a correspondence archive; I urge you to listen, read and pause.
I contacted Patricia and she generously gave permission to publish works from The Black Hours. It gives me great pleasure to do so, as her motivationbear striking similarity to a core principle of Prison Photography; to present imagery that jolts viewers into reassessments about prisons and the lives and stories therein.
Aridjis has been described as one of the photojournalists most committed to social issues in Mexico. It has al
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Biographical Information of Invited poets to the XX International Poetry Festival of Medellín
Biographical Information of Invited poets to the
XX International Poetry Festival of Medellín
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NIYI OSUNDARE was born in Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria, in 1947. He is a New Orleans/Nigerian poet, dramatist, critical essayist, and columnist. He is Professor of English at Universities of New Orleans and Ibadan. Osundare is an intensely political poet and a vehement champion for human rights. His award-winning Selected Poems were published by Heinemann in 1992. Osundare's more than two dozen books include his most recent collection of poetry, Days (2008). He is one of the most prominent within the generation of contemporary Anglophone Nigerian poets that emerged after Wole Soyinka, J.P. Clark-Bekederemo, and Gabriel Okara. His poems have won many national and international prizes, among which was the 1986 Commonwealth Poetry Prize. His published works include: I Sing of Change; Songs of the Marketplace; Village Voices; Moonsongs; The Eye of the Earth; The This is a list of women artists who were born in Mexico or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.•
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