Galegos na Diáspora
(c) 1989-2005 Delmi Álvarez
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| Galegos na Diáspora is a photodocumentalist project of author, carried out between the years 1989 and 2005 by the photojournalist Delmi Álvarez (Vigo, Galicia, 1958) around the world, following the routes that thousands of Galician emigrants. With a concept like a chronicle of trips around the world, Delmi Álvarez has photographed the communities of galicians in its respective places of work and residence, from old Europe to the Antipodal: Europe, the Américas, the Asia-Australian Continent and Africa. In October of 2005 Caixanova, will be the sponsor-partner of the great exhibition of the photographs in Vigo and will be traveling by Galicia later, spanish state, and abroad. Parallelly with the exhibition the photographer will take place workshops of photography explaining how the project was made. "Valentin Paz Andrade, was one of the galeguistas in the emigration that influenced in me for the accomplishment of this project, like Carlos Casares a nice traveller, or the professor and writer Xesús Alonso Montero, my grandmother Rosalía, a great traveller that made me fall in dreams with her stories about Cuba...". |
