How I Made It: Fluxus Foto

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

After a historic clash between Ecuadorians and their national government in 2019, one photo of an Andean woman mid-protest became an iconic symbol of resistance around the world.

The image was taken by a member of Fluxus Foto, a collective of Ecuadorian photojournalists. Their mission is to document indigenous peoples’ long-lasting struggles to have their rights guaranteed, and the collective has only continued to grow over the past few years.

The 12 photographers in Fluxus have risked their lives to capture political demonstrations and social movements. More recently, they’ve immersed themselves in local indigenous communities to document their lives amid a global pandemic. In this episode of our “How I Made It” series, Fluxus members take us behind the scenes of photographing the fight for social justice throughout the region.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Maria Inojosa, and I am Penileira Mides.
0:03.0	And on this new series, we're going to get to know the most powerful Mexican government
0:08.6	official ever to face trial in the US for his alleged ties to the infamous drug lord, El
0:15.4	Chappo.
0:16.4	But this is not your regular narco story.
0:19.3	It's like true crime, myths, telenovela.
0:22.6	This is our new series, USA versus García Luna.
0:27.1	Find it whatever you get your podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org.
0:34.1	Funtura.
0:37.1	It's the Dona Midefacifico!
0:44.1	From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA.
0:52.1	I'm Maria Inojosa.
0:54.1	Today for our How I Made It series, Fluxus Foto, a group of Ecuadorian photojournalists
1:00.9	telling their own stories.
1:07.4	In October 2019, Ecuador went through a violent large-scale uprising.
1:13.0	Demonstrations paralyzed the country for 12 days straight.
1:17.1	After former president Lenin Moreno cut decades-old fuel subsidies and implemented
1:24.0	tax and labor reforms.
1:26.8	Indigenous communities were hit especially hard by the changes.
1:31.1	Tens of thousands marched from the Andes mountains into Ecuador's capital city, Hito,
1:37.0	to protest the Moreno administration.
1:51.8	Protesters declared they were defending their rights as indigenous people from Ecuador.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.