EP37 - Stealing Moments with Your Eyes - Interview with Pedro Lange Churión

Documentarian and professor, Pedro Lange Churión, joins StreetPX today to discuss his craft, his inspirations and his large-format photography project, "May My Flesh Sleep in You", focusing on the Stolen Children crisis in Spain.

A deeply academic creative, through the University of San Francisco, Pedro teaches courses in Latin American Literature and Culture, Film Studies, Urban Studies, Photography, Comparative Literature and Critical Theory with an emphasis on Psychoanalytic Critical Theory. Yeah, some heavy stuff dropped in there at the end, and we get into some of this on today's episode? Many of these courses can be found here.

As a visual artist, he has written and directed award winning films, including Crocodile (USA, 2000) and Visitas (Colombia, 2005), as well as various dedicated documentaries, and experimental videos for The Urban Unseen.

Currently, Pedro is working on a large-format photography project, focused on the victims and the activists of the Stolen Children crisis in Spain.

"May My Flesh Sleep in You" is a project intent on bringing attention to the atrocities of the mid 20th century eugenics practiced during the Francisco Franco dictatorship. The actions of which, resulted in the disappearances of an estimate 250,000 newborns of parents, deemed as "undesirables" by the acting regime. A very powerful topic that goes highly under reported.

Idleness, in the bourgeois society that knows no leisure,  is the precondition for artistic production -- Walter Benjamin

Tune in today and learn more about the amazing artist, Pedro Lange Churión.

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VIEW: Pedro Lange Churión Gallery

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Show Notes:

Pedro Lange Churión Links

• USF Profile Page
• Stay tuned... More "May My Flesh  on his project coming soon!

Projects

• Urban Unseen on Flickr
• Videos

Plugs:

• Mill Valley Reverence Exhibit
• Strazzante: Shooting From the Hip
• Streetfoto Live Show - Friday June 9 @ 4PM
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Sponsor:

• Glass Key Photo
• Workshop - Joe Aguirre

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