The Huamachucos
The Moches - who specialized in portraying daily life in their ceramics and other wonderful artistic manifestations - and the Huamachucos - with their impressive architecture in stone and skillful management of water, among other skills - gradually found their way in the scenario of our immense cultural legacy nationwide, and earning widespread admiration both inside and outside the country. This book was developed as a part of the first organizational activities undertaken, in collaboration with Civil Association Ruta Moche, to promote and disseminate the cultural expressions of the Mochicas in disciplines and areas as diverse archeology, history, and vast cultural heritage.
In the Shade of the Guarango Tree
Peruvian photography Lorry Salcedo is a storyteller at heart. He finds his narratives conveyed through the bodies of his subjects. An expression, a gesture, even a posture is all it takes to initiate one of his tales. It is, in the final analysis, the story of the human similarities that unite all of us, regardless of ethnicity, gender, nationality, or even historical epoch, which Salcedo seeks to discover through his work. His stories, written in light and printed on silvered paper, encompass a truly multicultural Peru, a nation that, like its counterparts across the Americas, is still in the process of recognizing the full richness and value of its own diversity. Both the photographs he has encountered in his explorations of what it means to be a Peruvian and those he has created in the studio for the same purpose, allow us to see why this is so.
Stories in Light
Peruvian photographer Lorry Salcedo is a storyteller at heart. He finds his narratives conveyed through the bodies of his subjects. An expression, a gesture, even a posture is all it takes to initiate one of his tales. As specific, intimate and personal as this subject material is, his narratives open on to epic sagas: the rise and fall of nations, the ebb and flow of peoples across the face of our planet, the clash of cultures, the continuing of what it means to be human. Stories of Light embodies and visualizes that.