tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64043604757090663372012-01-17T21:19:31.451-08:00Congresista de la Repúblicanoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404360475709066337.post-69602298135371226482008-07-23T22:50:00.000-07:002008-12-10T06:08:16.283-08:00<span><span>Exhibition</span></span><div><span><span>20 pictures 110 x 95 cm.</span></span></div><div><span><span>228 digital images.</span></span></div><div><span><span><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A6gnzWBXgb4/SIg0KE0DrXI/AAAAAAAAAaA/dy4aq8uBLiQ/s1600-h/Expo1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A6gnzWBXgb4/SIg0KE0DrXI/AAAAAAAAAaA/dy4aq8uBLiQ/s400/Expo1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226484715258883442" /></a><br /><span><span><br /></span></span><div><br /></div><div>A warm morning of January 1992, in a factory of former PESCA PERU company in Chimbote, northern Peru, with the assistance of Francisco "Paco" Gallo, we  began the first "registers" of this PORTFOLIO.</div><div>Soon we went along our rute by streets, markets, factories, universities...in Lima, Arequipa, Puno, Cuzco, Trujillo....with the task to meet peruvians "of all the bloods" and of all the trades.</div><div>Our general idea seemed simple: "to disappear" as photographer, and to let the portrayed ones "to speak without words" in front of the camera. And later in front of You.</div><div><br /></div><div>When this project was born?</div><div>...maybe already in the boarding school National School Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (64-68), in Lima, where I shared several years with students coming from "all the corners" of Peru, and I begun to discover the wonderful and astonishing diversity of this country and its people.</div><div><br /></div><div>Years later, surely, were my readings of Jose Maria Arguedas and his core concerns : the multirracial and pluriethnical nationallity,...the identity......</div><div>Our initial pilgrimage was cut short by the rise of the political violence.</div><div>Later other projects prevented us to retake the registry of peruvians.</div><div><br /></div><div>When and how will conclude the project?...perhaps in form of a book -thought we years ago- a portraits album of peruvians of this time of searching for dialog, tolerance and development in democracy.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.docsperu.com/">Ricardo Arroyo</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6404360475709066337-6960229813537122648?l=peruvianportfolio.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Congresista de la Repúblicanoreply@blogger.com5