A idealistic, red-haired, Chilean-born photographer who has lived in or visited a dizzying number of places, from Nice, France, to New York, is opening a show at Casa Escorza in central Guadalajara. Appropriately enough, considering Emiliano Thibaut’s peripatetic life, this collection of 19 medium- and large-format photos focus on New York City, specifically its down-and-out population.
It’s a “delicate subject,” he says.
And Thibaut’s take on it, rather than being exploitative, is tinged with political and social awareness, a frame of mind forged in his early — very early — experiences as a refugee. At the age of 1 1/2, during the infamous coup d’etat that ousted Chile’s legitimate government, Thibuat’s parents (and Chilean President Allende’s widow) took refuge in an embassy, then fled through a whirlwind of cities worldwide before taking refuge eight years later in Nicaragua, where the then-nine-year-old Emiliano participated in that country’s revolution.
“I picked coffee in war zones, helped rescue people during hurricanes” he said, listing some of what he did in Nicaragua while his family was exiled from Chile.
Later he studied photography in Barcelona and, still apparently fascinated with revolutions, chronicled the Zapatistas, visited Cuba many times, and had his work published in the likes of Time and Newsweek magazines.
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