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“Last June 15th, Daniel Ortega, the President of Nicaragua, held a ceremony in Managua to announce his newest and most audacious plan to help the country's poor: a transoceanic canal,…
Maciej Dekert was born is Spain to a Polish father who shares his name and to whom he owes his passion for autobiography. A retired veterinarian, Maciej Dekert senior recently published…
A few years ago, La Fabrica launched a collection of books entitled PhotoBolsillo, a series of monographs from eminent Spanish, African and Latin-American photographers. The books are small with soft…
Ernesto Salmeron is a photographer, video artist and performer behind several initiatives to support audiovisual production in Nicaragua through educational workshops. In 2003, he launched E.V.I.L (Ejercicio Videasta Indio Ladinoameridiano), described…
The Ortiz Gurdian Foundation has stood up for politically and socially committed art in Nicaragua since it was founded in 1996. When the foundation first held the the Biennale of…
EspIRA is an association of artists and an art school founded by Patricia Belli almost fifteen years ago. “The original idea, and certainly still the driving force, is to train…
Alejandro Flores uses photography to capture a performance. His style borrows from the absurd to explore the complex subject of collective history. In the series Mascaras (Masks), he puts on nine…
Along with her friend Maria José Alvarez, Claudia Gordillo is one of the rare classic documentary photographers in Nicaragua. Her work is field research into the cultural diversity of her country. In…
Hicham Benohoud was born in 1968 in Marrakech, Morocco, and now divides his time between Morocco and France. He earned a B.A. in visual arts and studied education in Marrakech. He…