Snapshot + Dancer, Nicaragua, 2020

Thanks to this young dancer's mom for this behind-the-scenes snapshot, as her daughter is the first dancer to be photographed by my Hasselblad in Nicaragua for 2020. On that afternoon we drove to their city for a session, and made the time to find a location as well. We asked a kind landowner for permission to use his family's land, and he granted it to us without question. We were met with a few workers, who then led us to this small spot on horses. While I was worried about the distance and time, it all ended well!

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Our Home + Earthquake, Managua, Nicaragua, December 23, 1972

The green light to go forward came in today, and so plans are being made for the first trip to my birthplace since the week this photograph was made almost 45 years ago. The fact that we have this photograph is a miracle, for my Father was walking around buying photographs of the earthquake before we flew to Lebanon to reconstruct our lives. I hope to be able to find the exact spot of this photograph, and to make a portrait of the site of our now long-gone home.

According to Wikipedia:

The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake occurred at 12:29:44 a.m. local time (06:29:44 UTC) on December 23 near Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. It had a moment magnitude of 6.3 and a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive). The epicenter was 28 kilometers northeast of the city centre and a depth of about 10 kilometers. The earthquake caused widespread casualties among Managua's residents: 4,000–11,000 were killed, 20,000 were injured and over 300,000 were left homeless.

(Photographer unknown, 12/1972)