El Color de la Diaspora
Title
El Color de la Diaspora
Creator
Edizon León
Ecuadorian
Edizon León is a potographer and cultural Activist. He is the former Director of the Fondo Documental Afro-Andino at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.
Juan García Salazar
Ecuadorian, 1944 - 2017
Juan García Salazar was an Afro-Ecuadorian activist, community organizer, historian, photographer, teacher and recorder of the oral traditions of Black people of the region.
Ecuadorian
Edizon León is a potographer and cultural Activist. He is the former Director of the Fondo Documental Afro-Andino at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.
Juan García Salazar
Ecuadorian, 1944 - 2017
Juan García Salazar was an Afro-Ecuadorian activist, community organizer, historian, photographer, teacher and recorder of the oral traditions of Black people of the region.
Subject
Afro-Ecuadorian Diaspora
Type
photograph
Description
These photographs, part of a group taken over 35 years in Afro-Ecuadorian communities by Juan Garcia Salazar and Edizon Leon, form part of the holdings of the Fondo Documental Afro-Andean of the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, in Ecuador. The Afro-Andean Fondo’s primary concern in to build and maintain a political affiliation with collective visual and oral memories which are considered the most important legacy we have as Black Peoples in Ecuador and the Andean Region.
