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Photo Exhibit: "Street Children of the Dominican Republic"
- Where: Arts for ACT Gallery, 2265 First Street , Fort Myers, FL
- Cost: Free
- Age limit: All ages
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TB: Your upcoming photo exhibit benefits Florida Gulf Coast University professor Ingrid Martinez-Rico (Craig Heller’s wife) who was injured in an automobile accident on Feb. 5. Tell us how the exhibit correlates with her own work in the Dominican Republic.
CRAIG: The exhibit will highlight photographs that Chip took during the 2007 project, mostly photos of children who live and work on the streets of Santiago and/or in the city’s trash dump (known as La Mosca or The Fly). One of the purposes of the project is to educate and raise awareness about the conditions for children in the developing world.
TB: What kind of professor is Martinez-Rico and how did she get involved with Accion Callejera?
CRAIG: Ingrid is an associate professor of Spanish and German at FGCU. She has her PhD in comparative literature from Penn State and a master’s degree in English philology from Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain. Ingrid and I began the Dominican Republic Service Learning Project eight years ago as a means to provide an immersion experience for students studying Spanish, to expose them to the difficulties of development work in underprivileged societies and to teach them about the history and current state of U.S/.Latin American relations.
TB: How is Ingrid Martinez-Rico recovering now?
CRAIG: Ingrid continues to make very slow but forward progress in her recovery. She is now able to eat on her own and no longer needs a feeding tube. She is learning how to walk again and is lucid for most of the day although her memory is spotty and her thoughts still quite disorganized.
TB: How many photographs will be on display for sale and exhibition?
CHIP: There will be approximately 18 20 by 30 color photos.
TB: What was it like photographing the children in the Dominican Republic?
CHIP: It shook me to my core to see the conditions first hand that these children survive in. It made me quickly realize how privileged I am/we are and that this is not a sustainable way for the world to coexist. We are so visually desensitized by the media that the reality of the true situation of the children is difficult for us to imagine. I quickly realized that what I was seeing and translating as an image was 1,000 times worse than what you can imagine. I hope these images move you from your comfort zone and you that you will be challenged as your degree of privilege is exposed.
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