by Habitus · 03/29/11
Our event at the JCC in Manhattan with James E. Young was a big success. Have a look at some images from the event and we hope you’ll consider joining us for our next program.
Leave a Comment by Habitus · 03/28/11
The next event in our series with the JCC in Manhattan will be on April 14th.
Ilan Stavans and Marcelo Brodsky: Reinventing the fotonovela
The Mexican-American scholar and writer Ilan Stavans and Argentine photographer Marcelo Brodsky have collaborated to re-imagine the fotonovela, a form of photographic comic book once beloved throughout the Spanish-speaking world, as a vehicle for literary experiment and political commentary. Once 9:53, forthcoming later this year in Spanish and English editions, is set in Buenos Aires’ historically Jewish Once neighborhood, in the hours leading up to the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center building.
Register for the event here.
Read some of the great press this project has received, in Tablet and the Forward.
We produced a short video about the project last year:
Ilan Stavans and Marcelo Brodsky on Once 9:53 – a fotonovela from Habitus A Diaspora Journal on Vimeo.
JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue
7pm
$7.00 Members
$10.00 Nonmembers
by Habitus · 01/17/11
Aspiring photojournalists and photography students: Here is a rare opportunity to learn with Jason Eskenazi, celebrated artist and Habitus contributor. Jason writes:
The fall of the Berlin Wall led me out of Queens into the larger world. After trips to Germany and Romania for their first democratic elections I traveled to Russia in 1991, just before the August coup that marked the end of the USSR, and have returned many times since culminating in a photography book project called Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith, exhibited at Visa Pour L’ Image in Perpignan, France, at the Leica Gallery in New York and winner of Best Photography Book 2008 by Pictures of the Year International.
Jason’s work was featured in our Moscow issue, and in this Habitus-produced video:
Of course, Buenos Aires is also a place near and dear to Habitus, so this is an experience we can wholeheartedly recommend. The workshop is scheduled for mid July. More info here.
by David Gutherz · 11/22/10
There are those who say we are entering a new Hellenistic era. America, in this scenario, is the new Greece while The Internet has replaced Alexandrian chariot paths. And so, it is fitting that recent Habitus contributor Pedro Meyer’s new exhibition at the Athens Hellenic American Union A Long and Personal Trip Throughout the USA close with a roundtable discussion entitled, “Art and the Internet.” The new exhibition features some of the best of the approximately 80,000 photos Meyer has taken over thirty years criss-crossing the United States. In addition to the photographer himself, the closing panel on the 24th will feature photographer Nadia Baram, poet Dimosthenis Agrafiotis, and Tina Schelhorn, curator of the Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne.
by David Gutherz · 10/04/10
Let me guess: you’ve already finished reading and re-reading our new Mexico City issue and are hungry for more! Well, if you live in Nueva York, you’re in luck. Just head over to the Aperture Gallery on 547 W. 27th Street and check out Mexico City contributor Monica Ruzansky’s beautiful contribution to the “Mexico + Afuera” exhibit. “I loved Monica Ruzansky’s furtive and romantic snapshots of Mexico City nightscapes,” writes Maria Lokke of the New Yorker, “taken by the light of her car headlights over the course of two years…Driving at night, the theatrical focus of the lights transformed the city into a stage, the resulting images becoming ‘fragments of stories to which we are tempted to imagine a beginning and an end.’”
Monica’s photos–along with those of Chuy Benitez, Dulce Pinzón, and the acclaimed Modernist photographer Paul Strand–will be on display until October 21st.
by David Gutherz · 07/08/10
Are you suffering from imminent World Cup withdrawal? Wishing you could keep South Africa in your thoughts for just a little bit longer? Well, then, just head on over to the Jewish Museum of New York City, where you’ll find a pair of splendid exhibitions devoted to William Kentridge and David Goldblatt, two of the Rainbow Nation’s finest contemporary artists. As Josef Lelyved’s review of Goldblatt’s work emphasizes, both artists present a potent mix of art and politics that plays off our pre-conceptions and aims to shatter stereotypes. It may not be as fun as watching this Sunday’s final, but these images will stay with you long after the last highlight re-runs have stopped.
by David Gutherz · 06/23/10
Congratulations to Habitus contributor Katie Orlinsky for getting a number of her stunning photos featured in the New York Times! The upcoming issue of Habitus will be carrying a photo essay of hers on migrant workers in Mexico.
by Joshua Ellison · 03/18/10
A driver sleeps in his bus in the mid-afternoon in Coyoacán, just around the corner from Frida Kahlo’s house. Also not far from here, Leon Trotsky was bludgeoned to death by a Soviet agent in his home.
The old colonial neighborhood still has a bohemian, intellectual character. Habitus contributors Margo Glantz and Pedro Meyer both live nearby.
by Joshua Ellison · 03/17/10
Children and families spend the afternoon in the Parque España in Condesa.
Last night, I had dinner with some Mexican friends who have both lived in the States. They complained about some of the nuisances of living in Mexico City, like the constant blackouts, crime, fearsome traffic, and the numbing bureaucracy. Life would be much easier in the States, they both acknowledged, but they couldn’t imagine leaving.
The reason was simple: “In Mexico, you never feel alone.”
