Elvira Nishida Gaona, 76, Porvenir, Pando – Bolivia, 2012.
Escobar visited Elvira every day for two weeks while documenting traditional pottery making and pre-hispanic pottery finds. Life in rural Bolivia was very different to what we know in today’ s Canada.
Let us be extravagant in our patience and extraordinary in our kindness. We may not all be in the same boat, but we are all in similar storms, Andrea Brennan, minister at Knox United Church and priest at Christ Church Anglican.
associates in Calgary and found that people are documenting the realities of changing life all across the country.
With a desire to support the community, she began offering porch-side portraits in return for donations to the Elk Valley Covid Support Team. The response was enthusiastic and within a short amount of time she had documented 82 families. Calls began coming in from Sparwood and Elkford, where her services are available if enough people are interested. Expanding the content, Escobar is now also including business portraits and images of social changes such as mask wearing and social distancing, which she
Always take time to bounce!
says is the most noticeable difference as lineups begin to snake around corners.
In addition to photographing her subjects, she records how they have managed their time under the new restrictions and the impact it has had on daily life.
Having started the project in April 2020, Escobar plans to capture a full year of the pandemic and then hopes to mount an exhibition to highlight the transition the community has made and offer residents a way to connect with each other through images. Watch for it in Spring 2021 at the Fernie Museum.
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