Cold Trade
February 7 – March 3, 2013
In Cold Trade, Farias-Nardi documents the ice-making trade by Haitian migrant workers on the border of Dominican Republic and Haiti. “That the Haitians have to cross a border to buy ice strikes me as a symbol of how bad things are in the neighbor country, because the technology is simple: electricity, a refrigerator, and water.”
Pedro Farias-Nardi was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1957 and started photography at the early age of seven. Focusing on long-term photographic projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, Farias-Nardi has extensively documented the lives of economically and socially marginal people. He holds degrees in anthropology from the City University of New York and the University of Florida, Gainesville, and studied photography and visual anthropology at the International Center for Photography, the University of Southern California, and with photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil. He currently lives in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
