“Siempre estuvimos aquí”, es un proyecto fotográfico que aún está en proceso que se pregunta e investiga sobre la afrodescendencia en México. Existe un discurso histórico sobre el mestizaje que ha blanqueado el origen de los mexicanos, anclado en la memoria colectiva sobre nuestro origen en un mito sobre una identidad mestiza entre lo indígena y lo español, ocultando otras raíces, como la africana. Poco se menciona sobre el papel que los africanos tuvieron durante el proceso de la creación del estado nación que ahora es México. El objetivo de esta obra es identificar la raíz africana en nuestra vida cotidiana, el legado de nuestros ancestros, los retos del presente, desencajar el racismo internalizado y la reconstrucción de nuestra historia como afromexicanos.
Prólogo “Coyolillo - el misterio del disfrazado”.
Capítulo I "Aquí no hay negros".
Capítulo II "Lo que la historia nos debe".
Capítulo III "Sangre nueva".
Epílogo Viaje a la raiz.
We have always been here
Ongoing
"We were always here", is a photographic project that asks and investigates about afro-descendants in Mexico. There is a historical discourse on mestizaje that has made invisible the continental origin of Mexicans, anchored in the collective memory our indigenous and Spanish origin, hiding the African root. Little mention is made of the role that Africans played during the process of creating the nation state that is now Mexico. The objective of this work is to identify the African root in our daily lives, the legacy of our ancestors, the challenges of the present, unleashing internalized racism and the reconstruction of our history as Afromexicans.
Foreword ‘The Mystery of Disguised’
Chapter I 'There are no black people here'
Chapter II 'What History Owe Us'. (The massacres and the Afromexican rebellion.)
Doña Eloísa's grandchildren. Aaron and Abraham are the second twins in the family.
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Foreword The Mystery of Disguised
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Chapter I There are no afro people here
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Chapter II What History Owe Us
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Chapter III New Generation
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Epilogue Journey to the root.
Doña Eloísa's grandchildren. Aaron and Abraham are the second twins in the family.
Koral Carballo
Koral Carballo ( b. Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico in 1987) She tells stories related to identity, violence and territory;
dissolving frontiers between photojournalism and visual arts.
She began her career as a photojournalist in 2009 and in 2016 she decided to leave the local media to investigate her own long-term projects. She is currently working as a photojournalist, documentary photographer, visual storyteller and freelance artist.