El Otro
February 7 – March 3, 2013
Pedro Farias-Nardi’s El Otro is a series of portraits of undocumented Haitian migrant workers in the Dominican Republic. In collaboration with the Immigration Department, the portraits were taken when the the Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Service (JRMS) started an ID campaign. “My reason for these re-presentations is to call attention to the plight of these workers who are ignored by the Dominican population, but are an important segment of our economy. I cooperated with the JRMS for almost two years, documenting the life of the migrants in the region.”
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.
