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for [Mother and Child. Although I was supposed to be on a strict program and schedule I often conned the jeep driver and got him to stop at the houses of ordinary people. I'd knock on the door and interview them about their revolutionary experiences and do portraits. This is one of same from the southern outskirts of Managua. I was later hauled up before a military tribunal for doing this and had to be rescued by the Canadian ambassador in Costa Rica. I was asked at gunpoint to sign over control of all picture editing and caption writing to the Sandinistas. I refused, hence the diplomatic intervention.]
[Mother and Child. Although I was supposed to be on a strict program and schedule I often conned the jeep driver and got him to stop at the houses of ordinary people. I'd knock on the door and interview them about their revolutionary experiences and do portraits. This is one of same from the southern outskirts of Managua. I was later hauled up before a military tribunal for doing this and had to be rescued by the Canadian ambassador in Costa Rica. I was asked at gunpoint to sign over control of all picture editing and caption writing to the Sandinistas. I refused, hence the diplomatic intervention.]
Creator
Michael Mitchell
(Canadian, 1943 - 2020)
Date1984
Mediumchromogenic print
Dimensions50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in.)
Credit LinePurchase, with funds donated by Rupert Duchesne and Holly Coll-Black, 2012
Category
Object number2012/25.7
LocationNot currently on display
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