{"id":49487,"date":"2016-10-17T00:07:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T00:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49487"},"modified":"2016-10-17T01:14:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T01:14:55","slug":"too-black-for-mexico-cecile-smetana-photographs-the-afro-mexicans-stigmatized-for-the-color-of-their-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49487","title":{"rendered":"Too Black for Mexico \u2014\u00a0C\u00e9cile Smetana Photographs the Afro-Mexicans Stigmatized for the Color of Their Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too Black for Mexico \u2014\u00a0C\u00e9cile Smetana Photographs the Afro-Mexicans Stigmatized for the Color of Their Skin<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

FotoRoom<\/a>
\n2016-10-10<\/p>\n

Photos by C\u00e9cile Smetana Baudier<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

31 year-old French-Danish photographer C\u00e9cile Smetana Baudier<\/a>\u00a0discusses Diaspora: Costa Chica<\/em>, a subjective reportage<\/a> from a coastal area of Mexico<\/a> where C\u00e9cile lived with a\u00a0minority ethnic group: the Mexicans of African descent<\/a>. Her beautiful portraits and landscape photographs<\/a> introduce us to this community living at the margins of their society, and sometimes victim of racist stereotypes.<\/p>\n

Hello C\u00e9cile, thank you for this interview. What inspired your new series\u00a0Diaspora: Costa Chica<\/em><\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was living in Oaxaca city<\/a> in Mexico and was researching on a different project;\u00a0however when I started working on it\u00a0I never got a connection with the girls\u00a0I was photographing. I was not in a very positive state of mind.<\/p>\n

One day I was sitting at the dentist\u2019s office. A lot of his clients where other photographers and therefore he had all these photography books on the table. I started looking through them and I stumbled across one about the Afro-Mexican community in Costa Chica<\/a>, an area that expands from the state of Oaxaca<\/a> to the coast of Guerrero. I didn\u2019t know that there were any communities of people of African descent in Mexico and I started researching on the subject. I found the photos of Tony Gleaton<\/a>, an American photographer who dedicated his life to portray Afro communities and I was very much inspired by him, which becomes very clear when comparing my own images to his…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview and view the gallery here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Too Black for Mexico \u2014\u00a0C\u00e9cile Smetana Photographs the Afro-Mexicans Stigmatized for the Color of Their Skin FotoRoom 2016-10-10 Photos by C\u00e9cile Smetana Baudier 31 year-old French-Danish photographer C\u00e9cile Smetana Baudier\u00a0discusses Diaspora: Costa Chica, a subjective reportage from a coastal area of Mexico where C\u00e9cile lived with a\u00a0minority ethnic group: the Mexicans of African descent. Her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,21,8,103],"tags":[4633,2343,25231,25229,8471,25230,147],"class_list":["post-49487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-afro-mexicans","tag-afromexicans","tag-cecile-smetana","tag-cecile-smetana-baudier","tag-costa-chica","tag-fotoroom","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49492,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49487\/revisions\/49492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}