Eniac Martinez proposes "a journey through history and time"
Eniac Martinez has captured 80 pictures in the intangible: the passage of time, overlapping seasons, the perennial face of the people and everything that remains alive, hiding.
In the course of 3 thousand miles, in the so-called Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Eniac Martinez moved, lived with people and issues confronted forgotten to develop an ambitious photographic project initiated since 2000 and culminated six years later.
In Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, a book sponsored by the National Institutes of Anthropology and History, the Cultural Foundation of Aguascalientes and Televisa, the author presents an exquisite selection of panoramic images, supplemented with a text which specializes in three investigators tell the story the old path, coupled with the publication of cartoons abundant that we go back to centuries past.
Syncretism of images and eras
Eniac Martinez said in an interview his interest in deepening the theme of a route strengthened after the conquest: "The bountiful land area is a visual delicacy for any photographer, it is fascinating to travel to over 3 thousand kilometers from Mexico City to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the quantity of items to find and resurgent in such a long journey. "
El Camino Real, Martinez recalled, began as a trail of footprints of fragile native traders exchanged goods between north and south, after Spanish explorers consolidated with the expedition route from central Mexico to expand their domains and wealth King of Spain.
"Thousands of migrants, miners, missionaries and merchants have traveled the same path along four centuries, and now in this book is a photographic record of the current zones by crossing the Camino Real, but a trip through history and time. "
Emphasizes: "The overlapping time periods in history and what happened on that road for years, created in 1598, allowed me to make a syncretism of images and eras that coexist in the same point."
The photographs, stressed Eniac Martinez, chatting among themselves and there is a mutual empathy, as they look to move the reader through time "and allow you to roam this unique way."
With three published books and a wide path, the photographer made the trip from the City, crossing through the state of Mexico, Queretaro, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and Texas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Fight in northern Mexico
The north of Mexico, continues Eniac Martinez, has been recently photographed "and no doubt this great land area is saturated with elements that lead to wring and reflection.
"During the tour one wonders how people continue to live in diverse and extreme weather situations, how to continue fighting, what are their ways of earning a living, how to survive the Indians in those regions, in order, Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is a example of how things are moving and at the same time. "
The ruins and architecture from the XVI and XVII also attracted the attention of the photographer, who contrasted the value of the buildings at the present time. "Even these buildings are inhabited and remain alive along so many centuries."
Churches, ancient palaces, markets and crafts MYER to integrate rural architecture and landscape, he added.
But his artistic and photographic, he argues, turned toward the other end: "I am a photographer from the street and I have always interested in the intangible heritage, all that remains alive, traditions, what exists and what is most important: people. "
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro be presented this Thursday at 19 am in the Auditorium Jaime Torres Bodet, the National Museum of Anthropology. During the presentation of the book with an innovative horizontal format, will participate Benito Taibo, Tomas Martinez Saldana and Francisco Mata Rosas. The musical will be in charge of the Rural North.
Via La Jornada
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