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Photographic exhibition and lecture to mark centenary of Zapata's assassination
11 November 2019
The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS, University of London) and the Institute of the Americas co-sponsored the photographic exhibition titled ‘Emiliano Zapata: 100 years, 100 photographs’ commemorating the centenary of the assassination of Emiliano Zapata.
Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) was a Mexican revolutionary icon. Professor Alan Knight, Emeritus Professor of Latin American History, University of Oxford, and Gustavo Casasola Salamanca, Director of the Casasola Collection, gave introductory lectures examining, respectively, the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and the importance of photographic journalism during this key period in Mexican history.
Dr Helga Baitenmann, Associate Fellow of ILAS, and Javier Calderón, director of the Chalton Gallery, co-curated the exhibition. The photographs were part of an international project involving dozens of individuals, universities and photographic archives in Mexico and several other countries, especially Casasola México. The ILAS/UCL exhibition focused on making visible the women who collaborated and fought with the Zapatista revolutionary movement.
The lecture and exhibition took place on November 7 2019 at the UCL Institute of the Americas.
