24 - Faday. November 20. 1998 -—

North Shore News

Keeping it
hersonal

8 lo the Belly Button of the

Moon. photographs by
Joaquin Pedrero, to Dec. 6
at Exposure Gallery.

THROUGH his fine-
art photography,
Joaquin Pedrero carries
on a centuries-old fami-
ly tradition of recording
personal history,

In Cusunadia, Hedrera
e\proses his pain over the
death of hts half sister trom. a
drug overdose cight vears age
Barbed wire and the imay
aawoman, head bent in sor

row, form the shape af a cross.

In Vita Nova, the baby
Shoe is that of older daughter,
Claudia; the pacifier, his
daughter Andrea's.

In La AMinche nen ves
(roughly translated as Mlinche
in praver), Pedrero debves into
the history of his native
Mexico and the legend of
Miinche, a Mayan woman
torn benveen the religion of
her native people and
Catholicism, the religion of
Spanish explorer Hernan
Cortes, for whom Milinche
acted as interpreter.

“My family has kept cither
diaries or stortes,” says the 52-

Aearoht artist whe N

the Loth
eentary Weg ante at tas tor
boars armycdw wigs an
tiv shores ot Veraarus. Phe
tan’s wite, a Greek wenn,
was cxtrtordiary, says
Podrera. fn additieny te bear
ing 24 children, she kepta
aliary, whichis sulla dhe ram
ota thus day

Ele creates fis compelling
works not through computer
wigardry bat what he calls the
stradional wav: muluple
exposures and the use ofa
large format camera.

With waite Ana tre runs
Potogratica, an East Van sta
dio that provides photography
and digital imaging tor chents
that include fashion designers,
a brewing company and high-
tech industry leaders.

Commercial work pays the
bills but fine art feeds his soul,
say's Pedrero,

“What vourre seeing is
what keeps me sane.”

— Lava Christensen

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THE fine-art photographs of Joaquin 2edrero currently on exhibit at Exposure
Gallery are intimate accounts of personal events and family history.

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