Tania Spring*
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With a large attendance, the photographic exhibition “The 80s in Black and White” by the Italian photographer Giovanni Palazzo was inaugurated «sausage», last Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at the headquarters of the Museum of the Word and Image (MUPI), San Salvador. It was attended by participants at the International Congress “New approaches to the study of the armed conflict in El Salvador”, held at the Pedagogical University.
For more than an hour, Gio Palazzo He told about his journalistic adventures, and how he managed to capture in his photos, various situations during the years from 1980 to 1988. In August he always came, saving to pay for his trips, getting on buses that would take him to places in El Salvador, where he spontaneously captured What happened.
“Everything is part of the historical process, the house, the street, the paintings on the walls, they explain all social and political situations at all times, it is important in history to read it” says Giò Palazzo.
The photos reflect this historical decade with humanism: daily life in the midst of the armed conflict, refugee camps, political figures, the interior of women’s prisons, guerrilla camps or army military operations.
Palazzo, began his career as an electronic technician, self-taught photographer. He came to El Salvador when he was only 26 years old to collect the different aspects of that historical stage, placing his special perspective at the service of the solidarity movement towards El Salvador. The trips made during a period, completely self-financed, took place during their vacations. Today he is a professional who has published his photos in books, encyclopedias, national and international exhibitions and continues to be a very sensitive photographer, capturing images of social and political life from different parts of the world.
Giovanni Palazzo was born in 1954 in Castelluccio Valmaggiore, Italy. In the early 1980s he arrived in El Salvador, and for a decade he traveled through the country in the midst of the civil war. In November 1988 he was captured and deported. On this visit to the country, Giò Palazzo donates a collection of 4,000 black and white images, which join the 6,000 color images that he donated to the MUPI in 2013, collections that will soon be shown in a book.
The MUPI invites you to visit the exhibition at 27 Avenida Norte, La Esperanza Urbanization #1140, between 19 and 21 Calle Poniente, San Salvador. From Monday to Friday from 8am to 12m and 2pm to 4pm and Saturday from 8am to 12m.
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*Photos and texts Tania Primavera.
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