Julián
Cardona awarded 2004 Cultural Freedom Fellowship
http://www.lannan.org/lf/cf/detail/julian-cardona-awarded-2004-cultural-freedom-fellowship/
Julián Cardona to
Speak at College of Santa Fe (official press release)
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slideshow of Julián Cardona's images
Ten years ago, Julián Cardona,
a photojournalist from Juárez, Mexico, began to document the devastating effects of
globalization on the U.S.-Mexico border. Since that time he has amassed
thousands of photographs bearing witness to the harsh reality of border life,
from the hundreds of unsolved murders of Mexican women in Juárez, to the social
effects caused by low wages paid in border factories; from the exodus of
Mexican immigrants fleeing their country and its collapsing economy, to the
shanty town communities living in slum conditions right next to the wealthiest
country in the world. His photo documentation of the violence, poverty
and social upheaval he witnesses tells a story that one hundred years from now
will still cause people to feel the wounds of an era.
Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, Mr. Cardona was a small child when his family moved
to Juárez. He attended school there, received vocational training, and worked
as a technician in a maquiladora (a foreign owned factory), where he worked to
earn money to buy his first camera. A self-taught photographer, in 1991
he moved back to Zacatecas to teach beginning photography at the Centro
Cultural de Zacatecas. Two years later he started his photojournalism
career at the publications El Fronterizo
and El Diario de Juárez. In
1995 he organized a group show called "Nada que ver" (Nothing to
See), which contained the work of photojournalists who document the daily
violence, death and poverty that accompanies life in Juárez. Photographs
of that show were featured in Harpers
Magazine in 1996. In 1998 Mr. Cardona's work appeared in the
book Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future,
which features essays by Charles Bowden, Noam Chomsky, and Eduardo
Galeano. Mr. Cardona's photographs of the interior of maquiladoras in Juárez
were published in Aperture No. 159,
"Camera of Dirt."
Mr. Cardona's photographs have been featured in exhibits in Mexico, the United
States, and Europe.
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