thursday, december 31, 2009
Five Years in Peru
For the first two months of 2010, a collection of my photographs will be on display at The Bunna Coffee Tea & Market in Chandler, Arizona. The exhibition, Five Years in Peru, will feature a dozen or so of my photographs taken between 2003 and 2008 at locations across the Andean nation.In 2003, I arrived in Peru with the intention of spending a few months digging up a freelance story or two to try and sell when I got back to the states. Instead, I ended up staying semi-permanently and creating a freelance journalism career pretty much from scratch. In conjunction with that, I became a photojournalist somewhat by accident.
Five Years in Peru is an opportunity to show my work for the first time but it is also a deliberate attempt to educate people about the mysterious and often misunderstood Andean country.
More than 2.5 million foreign visitors flocked to Peru in 2008, the vast majority of whom merely traveling to Cusco and the famous "lost city" of the Incas, Machu Picchu and returned home. The tourism industry that has arisen to accommodate these visitors is a vital source of income for the nation. Regrettably, it also tends to limit a more substantial understanding of the country.
The exhibition Five Years in Peru is an effort to address that. Many of these pictures are of regions outside of the usual tourist haunts and focus on the more mundane, but infinitely fascinating, aspects of Peruvian life today.
In connection with this event my 2010 calendar will feature the photographs in the show. These can be ordered through the print-by-demand service Lulu.com.
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| comment posted by: Dorothy Estes on december 9, 2009 @ 2:07 am |
Cliff is a remarkable journalist uniquely qualified to listen and learn before phrecording his impressions of this ancient civilization. |
| comment posted by: Fernando on january 16, 2010 @ 11:41 pm |
well. i feel really pleasent to have read those lines of this book. my congratulations for that Book. as peruvian i feel the same as that Writer that in Peru there are still more and incredibles places to get to know. |
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