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Contact: Bruce Conley
Associate Director of College Relations
Phone: (605) 274-5526
Fax: (605) 274-4903
www.augie.edu
March 9, 2006
SIOUX FALLS – Pamela Fitzpatrick and Paul Dix present their Nicaragua Photo Testimony Project at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, in Gilbert Science Center room 100. This presentation is free and open to the public.
Living with the Consequences of U.S. Policy is the title of the program.
In October of 2002, nearly 13 years after the February 1990 elections removed the Sandinistas from power, Fitzpatrick and Dix returned to Nicaragua. They spent six months traveling throughout the country trying to find and interview some of the people that Dix had photographed in the 1980s during the Contra War era.
After a year back in the U.S., they returned to Nicaragua in October 2004 for another six-month stay. Their goal was to document – through taped interviews or testimonies, photographs and more – the long term effects of the Contra War and its aftermath on the lives of ordinary Nicaraguans.
Dix is a photojournalist who lived in Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990. Fitzpatrick was the director of the North Pacific Witness for Peace Office in Eugene, Ore., from 1985 to 1993. She has led delegations to Nicaragua.
Among the sponsors for this event are Augustana College’s International Studies major, the English and Journalism Department, and the Augustana Coalition for Social Justice.
Gilbert Science Center is located on the corner of 33rd Street and Summit Avenue.