Tag: Photographers

A TRAIL OF MEMORIES: A CONVERSATION WITH TRICIA RAINWATER

Claudia Pretelin

Through her work in multi-media and photography, Tricia Rainwater has opened up a dialogue between past and present which has explored a place of vulnerability and resilience. Contemplating stories from her ancestors and her own life, she becomes, learns, and fully exists. Paraphrasing writer Terese Marie Mailhot, “once you name your transgressions and transgressors, you are able to put down your pain.” Tricia has started walking this trail.  Currently based on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco), Tricia was raised in the Central Valley until the age of ten and then…

MY DEAR AMERICANS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ILEANA DOBLE HERNÁNDEZ

Claudia Pretelin

Ileana Doble Hernández and I have crossed similar paths but haven’t met yet. We both lived in Monterrey, Mexico, and Rochester, New York without knowing each other. We both left the northern state of Mexico due to the increasing violence and while she moved north to the US, I went back to the capital of Mexico. Although the chances to meet should have increased during our period living in New York, at the time we were both getting ready to leave again.  In 2019, a year after moving to Los…

IMAGES FROM NICARAGUA: AN INTERVIEW WITH GABRIELLE GARCIA STEIB

Claudia Pretelin

In the United States, community-driven photo archives have grown in popularity, particularly in social media, in the last five years. To name a few of these initiatives around the country one can find Instagram accounts such as Korean Archives in DC, Cambodian Archives in Los Angeles, and, perhaps one of the most successful, Veteranas y Rucas, run by archivist and visual artist Guadalupe Rosales. Rosales has been sharing the experiences and life of Mexican-Americans in East LA since 2015. The commonality of these projects is the effort to challenge and…