Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys across the Old Spanish Trail

  • Heritage
  • Albuquerque
  • Fri, April 01 —
    Fri, September 30, 2016
Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys across the Old Spanish Trail

A project that explores the Spanish heritage in the Southwest of the US, a route that linked the colonial outposts of New Mexico and California.

Moving Forward, Looking Back: Journeys Across the Old Spanish Trail started in March 2014 with a road trip across the Southwest of the Spanish photojournalist Janire Nájera.

She and her assistant Matt Wright followed the footsteps of trader Antonio Armijo, who opened the route of the Old Spanish Trail between the states of New Mexico and California in the 19th century.

During her trip, Janire met and interviewed Spanish descendants to analyze how the traditions of the first settlers have merged with local cultures influencing the creation and identity of today’s pueblos and cities, revealing some traces of Spanish intangible heritage that remains across these states.

Nájera has captured her experience along the route in a daily log, a book and a photography exhibition that premiered at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain in Washington, D.C. and that will be presented in March at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

View it online.

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National Hispanic Cultural Center, HLA Research Library, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
(505) 246-2261

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Free. Open from 10 am to 5 pm.

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National Hispanic Cultural Center

Credits

Organized by SPAIN arts & culture, Spain-USA Foundation and National Hispanic Cultural Center. Moving Forward, Looking Back was the selected project of an open call organized by SPAINred. This project is accompanied by a photography book authored by Janire Nájera. The catalog of this exhibition is published by RM.

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