The Nicaraguans: Twenty Years Between Portraits

[Robert Kalman]

I have a show of 19 diptychs opening on Tuesday, May 2nd at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.

In the early 1990’s I traveled to Nicaragua to make formal, 4x5 portraits of villagers in the small, rural pueblo of Larreynaga. Twenty years later, I returned to remake their images and to reconnect with their lives. The resulting portraits pull in opposite directions: while they distinctly mark the passage of time, I believe they are also timeless.