Photographing the rituals of healing and dying in Latin America
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
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To accompany the exhibition 'Decolonizing 'witchcraft': Portraits of traditional healing in Bolivia' at the Peltz Gallery, 'Photographing the rituals of healing and dying in Latin America' considers some of the visual and ethical challenges of documentary photography. Join Patrizia di Bello, Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Photography at Birkbeck College, and photographers David Green and Marcel Reyes-Cortez, as they explore the themes of ritual, community and cultural memory raised by the exhibition. The evening will reflect on Green's experience working with communities of indigenous health practitioners in Bolivia and Reyes-Cortez's work documenting the cultural practices of death and mourning in Mexico.
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