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A nomadic woman walks with her belongings to the river, along the Plateau of Tibet, at elevation of 12,000 feet. Selected for the Voices Exhibition, on the occasion of The First Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, at the United Nations, in New York, New York. Photographed on Kodak color slide film with flash fill. Photo copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes.

Nuns walk with their dri ( a juvenile yak) on the Plateau of Tibet. Image copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes. Photographed on color slide film, donated by Kodak. Selected for the Voice exhibition, on the occasion of The First Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, United Nations.

Nuns walk with their dri ( a juvenile yak) on the Plateau of Tibet. Image copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes. Photographed on color slide film, donated by Kodak. Selected for the Voice exhibition, on the occasion of The First Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, United Nations.

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Two women wait for a bus in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Selected for the Voices Exhibition, on the occasion of The First Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Photographed on Kodak color film. Photo copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes.

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Women, members of the Dani tribe mourn, the passing of their tribal chief, in the Baliem Valley, of Irian Jaya. A very rare photograph. I was permitted to sit on my haunches at the entrance to the mourning hut to record three frames. Recorded on color film. Photo copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes. Selected for the Voices Exhibition, on the occasion of The First Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

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A refugee from the war in El Salvador, this young girl studies at a school in San Miguel Desamparados, a village outside the of San José, Costa Rica. Recorded on Kodak black and white film, copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes. Selected for the Voices Exhibition, on the occasion of The First Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Selected for the exhibition by Her Eminence Mary Robinson.

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Children on a street corner, with a playful scheme in mind, in Havana, Cuba. Recorded on black and white film. Image copyright, Ana Elisa Fuentes. Selected for the Voices Exhibition, on the occasion of The First Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

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A mother carries cooking embers with her children following behind, on a main street in Port-au-Prince,Haiti. This photograph was recorded after the UN exhibit. However, it illustrates one of the main points in my presentation which I will deliver in Oxford, England, next month. Digital image, photo copyright, Ana Elisa Fuentes

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A Haitian hurricane survivor waits for medical attention, at a refugee camp, in Jimani, Dominican Republic. Digital image copyright, Ana Elisa Fuentes. This photograph was recorded after the UN exhibit. However, it illustrates one of the main points in my presentation which I will deliver in Oxford, England, next month. Photography copyright, Ana Elisa Fuentes

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From the Mississippi Delta

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Portrait of Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland, scholar, playwright and novelist. Dr. Holland received literary accolades for her play and novel, “From the Mississippi Delta,” a memoir. Her life transformed and liberated by the civil rights movement; she later brought these same activist qualities into the classroom, where she became the first faculty professor at the University of Southern California to receive a joint appointment  in the School of Theater and Gender Studies.

The historical photograph of Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland, depicts her and others marching for civil rights in Greenwood, Mississippi. Photograph courtesy of Dr. Holland’s personal collection and archive.

These photographs will be featured in my exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County.

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A woman carries her belongings from the higher elevations, to our base at 13,000 feet Plateau of Tibet.

On March18th I have a solo photography exhibit opening at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in honor of Women’s History Month.  

For those of you who continue to believe, or think that feminism is a throw back to another era or an outdated or surmounted issue, I encourage you to read  this account presented by the Women Under Siege Project on how violence, threats of violence and rape have been used against women. This article is a detailed account from witness testimony from women during the Holocaust to and accounts from present day Rwanda. Please read here

Last week a panel discussion convened at the International Programs Center, University of Montana on the growing accounts of Femicide  along the border region of Mexico and the United States.

The image above, Nomadic Woman, Plateau of Tibet is an image selected for the exhibit at Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center.

A selection of my images for print sales may be seen here