Please join us for a screening of El fotógrafo de La 40, followed by a discussion with documentary filmmaker and investigative photojournalist Erika Santelices and Daniel Alarcón, Professor at Columbia Journalism School. The film will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles, and the ensuing conversation will take place in English.
This event is free and open to the public with registration. A reception will follow.
About the film:
El fotógrafo de La 40 reveals the story of photographer Pedro Aníbal Fuentes Berg, who was sent to take pictures at the clandestine “La 40” prison—a torture center established during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (1930–1961) in the Dominican Republic. Driven by an inescapable sense of duty to expose the horrors endured by political opponents within the prison, Fuentes Berg decided to release the images to the world. Some of his photographs became iconic symbols of the barbarity of the Trujillo dictatorship. The film explores questions of photography, archives, historical memory, and the representation of political violence.
