After
enormous efforts - and more disappointment with people who offered to
help and then pretended to misunderstand, our friend Francisco Vigo
has managed to publish the photobook "Qayaqpuma".
Already,
Pancho had taken his photographic exhibition to Lima, Arequipa,
Cajamarca and Shangahi, but the idea of the book did not cease.
Just
a few weeks ago this book was born. On each page you can see the
meticulous care that Pancho has given this edition. Our sincere
congratulations go out to you for this excellent work.
Our
brother Alfredo Mires wrote the presentation of the book, with the
title "In the name of the son", and in it he says:
"...
this intriguing perception of heritage is not an archaism, it is not
an idolatry nor a Palaeolithic backwardness as some obtuse
connoisseurs are determined to point out. The sense of affiliation
with the earth is a superior state of human development, an
overcoming of civilizing nonsense.
The
overthrow of the Andean and primordial world - for now more than five
hundred years - has not only meant genocide and ecocide, but also the
blatant theft of memory and the looting of its repositories.
And
the devastation does not cease: the majestic Apu Qayaqpuma - once
venerated and extolled by the founding communities of culture - is
not only threatened by extractive usury, but is permanently subject
to dumping and disfigurement.
It's
pure existence continues to summon us, it's pure fragility continues
to call us."
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