translated from Spanish: Launching of a photo book of Afro-descendents “diaspora” at Centro Cultural Mapocho Station

Launching of the photography book of the Afro-descendant World “diaspora” by photographer Christian Jamett
In Mapocho Station Cultural Center, Culture Square S/N, former train station. Metro Bridge Cal and Canto.
Wednesday, May 22, 19:00 hours.
Entry released.
The book diaspora takes the photographic record made only to Afro-descendant women, starting with a careful recording of portraits, to continue with silent follow-up to four stories of prominent women among themselves.
Why make a book dedicated to Afro-descendant women?
They are inspiring and worthy of imitation, they are women of the Valley of Azapa, which in the middle of the 20 century, when the majority of its genus was relegated to the domestic chores, transgress the habitual norms and a not minor group exert the work of Comerciantas , as they liked to be called, were ahead of the times, were visionary, took care of the needs and demands of fresh products for the city of Arica, were entrepreneurs today, without access to education or training any, without Technologies, without economic support networks, transported on Donkey’s back, supported by their great effort to advance and be a contribution to the economy of their families and their communities.
Diaspora is physically constructed from the record of 40 photographs, made by Christian Jamett in medium format, with a professional film Fujifilm Acros 100 ISO extinct these days in the world and in 35mm format with Ilford film of 125 ISO. Each of the images was carefully selected from reflecting the current and the range of contexts in which they unfold.
This is a social work that seeks to highlight and emphasize the importance of Afro-descendant women in Chile, being a little known story, but that today this book aims to disseminate as interest and value of society.
Credit: Christian Jamett
On this book, his photographic editor Álvaro Hoppe G. Says:
The outstanding photographer Ariqueño, Christian Jamett surprises us with diaspora, a publication of 40 photographs that add to its record made since 2014. To understand the book it is important to see the meaning of this word. According to the RAE/1, the word diaspora is: “The dispersion by the world of human groups that have been obliged, by different causes, to leave their place of origin”.
This project is a desire, on the part of this photographer, to visualize and rescue these Afro-descendant women from the Azapa Valley, whose black ancestors arrived in northern Chile, specifically in Arica, in the mid-11TH century. They have been fighters, together with their families, to achieve recognition as a trivial Afro-descendant, which was recently achieved by the Chilean state. The book diaspora is also part of this recognition.

Original source in Spanish