Doña Pola, may I take you some pics?

Communications students perpetuate the beauty of Piura Monumental Zone.

 

Photographs Courtesy UPAO/DDC Piura.

 

PIURA CITY, Peru – How many times have you taken the time to go up this city but looking to explore beauty? Modern times are updating the face to the department’s capital – it doesn’t mean it’s printing identity. It would be convenient.

However amid the contemporary, it still remains in the walls and public walks those strips that made the city of eternal heat like a lovely location that inspired big plays of Peruvian literature, classic waltzes of the national song archive too.

Piura’s Descentralized Direction of Culture (DDC Piura) thinks one way to keep that legacy is through the divulgation of that patrimony, so promoting development. Yes, it’s possible. It’s called making it worthy. That’s why it  has been allied strategically to the Communications Programme of Piura’s Antenor Orrego Private University (UPAO Piura, as in Spanish).

Both institutions started up the project named Photographic Binnacle of Piura Monumental Zone that looks for build an digital image bank, so implementing the DDC Piura’s photographic repository specialized in that part of the department’s capital city.

In the same way, it pretends to create the Piura’s Cultural Photo Archive which saves graphic updates in digital format  about all our identity expressed in material, immaterial performances. And as amazing as it seems, wwe have a riches we haven’t able to value in our department yet. Or maybe yes, but we are dismissing it.

 

The Project of DDC Piura and UPAO Piura is initially scheduled for seven months, it will be in charge of Photography Workshop students coached by the teacher Erick aquino Montoro, professional photographer and specialist in documentary film & video.

They use techniques as documentary photography and architectural photography. For the first one, the idea is to have a kind of photo memory record. For the second one, they are having specialized advisory.

DDC Piura’s architect Cinthia Cotlear León is guiding those graphic tellers about what details they have to put the eye into, what the meaning in cultural contribution terms is.

For DDC Piura’s director Nelly Lorena Zuñiga Saavedra, the project is key as much as “the photography has turned in the most versatile and accessible tool to witness the mutable conditions of space/time and the whole changing process that it brings with living in a context of constant challenges, where we keep and eye out to reach the development through the revaluation of our cultural patrimony.”

 

    

It’s not the first time the DDC Piura works on the conservation of department’s capital monumental zone. Before the pandemic, it took brushes and detergent to clean the statues a little across this area. By the way, haven’t you realized La Pola is very photogenic? Look at her again. Yes, she is.

 

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