No hay pan para tanto chorizo

NO HAY PAN PARA TANTO CHORIZO

Cover: Velantine Paris 2011 Photography and Editorial: Angelica Lizarazo

This Issue is a showcase of my individual exhibition at the Jorge Tadeo University in Bogota in May of 2012.

The exhibition named “No hay pan para tanto chorizo� was composed of 24 selected photographs taken in different european cities in the summer of 2011. It was open to the public during two months in which I was also assigned to do daily tours to students and invited guests as a part of my interest of telling the documentary content of the images. Half of these photographs were sold and another half remains exhibited in different rooms that compose the network of universities in Bogota.

PARIS MADRID BARCELONA

Underwear Paris 2011

“THE GOOD PHOTOGRAPH IS NOT THE OBJECT, IT’S CONSEQUENCES ARE THE OBJECTS. So that no one would say, “how did you do it, where did you find it,” but they would say that such things could be.

-Dorothea Lange

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As I found myself among the Indignados in Barcelona and Madrid, I felt profoundly/deeply overwhelmed. At the same time, I was also surprised of how brave these people were. They had organized themselves to go out to the streets and shout to the entire world what they thought. They became a colective unity defending their welfare. They began a movement against discontent.

Solidarite Paris, Place de la Bastille 2011

The Gay pride in Paris allowed me to experiment with diverse people and their lifestyles which broke with stereotype canons. These colorful faces were a great part of my inner experience as a photographer, they not only remained inscripted in my photographs but also in my memories, allowing myself to go out of my own life and enter other people’s worlds.

The 15M movement was more alive than ever in the summer of 2011. The experience of being present in the parks and in the plazas, walking the streets past 1 am and feeling the degree of Indignation in which the spanish people had found themselves almost seemed like living a pre-apocalypse. This caused a great explosion of new questions about life and changed the role in which I considered myself to be.

A world not far away, that breathes, lives and protests to reclaim their rights. I think that getting to know other people’s circumstances allows us to make reflections about our own reality and this may be, a seed for change.

While in one instant a photography can only tell us about what wee see with our own eyes, there is another in which it demonstrates to us how little our eyes can see.

V de Vivienda Madrid 2011

NO HAY PAN PARA TANTO CHORIZO Bread and sausage is a traditional food in Spain. It is served commonly as an appetizer, alternating pieces of sausage with pieces of bread or as a snack. In this case, normally a sandwich.

The word sausage also has another meaning in the informal language, that is: “thief”. So, we can understand the line “No hay pan para tanto chorizo” as: There is not enough money as there are thieves. This is how this phrase is a form of protest against the numerous cases of corruption that were discovered in Spain. This expression disseminates many messages at once: There is no money left to steal, there are too many criminals in the public sector, that people are outraged and that the country’s politics have been turned into a huge factory of sausage.

Vamos M15 Demo, Madrid 2011

NO M15 Demo, Madrid 2011

A la calle!

Acampada, Barcelona 2011

Utopia Autentica Madrid 2011

Perroflauta Acampada, Barcelona 2011

Another kind of blue Gay pride, Paris 2011

REVIEW

A DOCUMENTARY EYE ON OTHER REALITIES Social photography is to graphically present reality, since the objective subjectivity of photography. The New Technologies of Information and Communication (NTIC) allow, to digitization in the case of photography, export and publish different aspects of reality that would otherwise be forgotten or go unnoticed.

Photography is a great tool to communicate and display situations excluded people and their demands. Images form an active part of social movements.

The exhibition of Angelika Lizarazo shows her particular way of seeing two of these “excluded” realities: the gay expression in its annual protest party, known worldwide as Pride Day, and the 15M movement that, in Spain, has put into question the status quo prevailing in a society hit by a crisis not only economically but also socially.

The pictures we put in front of that other company sometimes ignored or concealed to reveal not that life is not the same for everyone.

The color and glitter, in the case of LGBT people, and messages ironic in the case of forming the 15M, remind us.

Angelica’s Documentary work brings us closer to “a world not too distant, breathing, living and protesting for their conditions, regardless of their reasons for doing so.”

Iñaki Chaves Spanish Sociologist, Photographer and Journalist.

“These colorful faces... They not only remained inscripted in my photographs but also in my m

Blackangel Gay pride, Paris 2011

Ă€ ciel ouvert Gay pride, Paris 2011

Express yourself, don’t repress yourself Gay pride, Paris 2011

memories, allowing myself to go out of my own life and enter other people’s worlds.”

Announcer la coleur Gay pride, Paris 2011

THANKS