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Silvia "Cristina Chiquin" Rodriguez (born August 24th, 1983) is a Guatemalan photojournalist and documentary photographer known for her advocacy in women's rights. She is best known for documenting the faces and voices of people through their struggles, who search for justice in resistance, discovering the truth about their communities and their country. Her works include a photobook with 2 editions; 2018 and 2022, named "La Búsqueda[1]" (The Search).[2] This includes more than 10 years worth of testimonies through images. Apart from being a photographer, she also writes articles based on political actions on those discriminated against. Her objective is to document women's struggles and to support the fight for memory, truth, and justice.[2]
Personal Life
[edit]Through a Mirada Nativa[3] biography, Cristina got into photography at a young age due to the landscape pictures that her father would usually take. Her father gathered and collected boxes full of pictures which gave Cristina the enthusiasm to create the same. Rather in leaning on aesthetics and nature, her focus was on activism and speaking out through pictures. In 2012 she began to take pictures documenting processes and communication through photojournalism. Not only was her focus in journaling through images, but she began to write down what went about in her works.[4]
Chiquin explains that it was through the Genocide Trial in Guatemala where her works became more documentative. She would be present every day of the trial to inform herself and the public. Where words couldn't express the feelings, the photos did it for her. She felt she could empower those who are vulnerable through a camera that speaks for them and their situation. Photography is a passion of hers, making it a part of her resistance as well. The societal norms in her community had been forced upon her because of her journey in being a mestiza woman.[4]
Because of her photojournalism career, she prefers not to be too public due to the contradicting publicity shown to the audience i from the political standpoints of the country. It puts her information at risk.
Recognitions
[edit]The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMP) has highly recognized her contribution to highlighting the experiences of Ixil women survivors of severe human rights violations. This is where some of her articles are portrayed.
She was awarded the Special Mention of the 2013 Prensa-Mujer Award by the Spanish Association of Women in the Media. The special mention recognizes Latin American journalists who denounce femicide.
Chiquin is a co-founder of the Ixchel Women's Group . This group forms a feminist collective of technologies, the web, and social media whose goal is to vindicate the struggles and resistance of women inside and outside of Guatemala.[5]
In 2018, Mirada Nativa featured her for a documentary series called "Seres de la Niebla[6]" (Beings of the fog/mist). Cristina is the second protagonist of that short documentary series (SDN) capturing the struggle of Guatemalan women who have created better living conditions for many women.[7]
As of 2024, a CNN International article by Tara John and Ivonne Valdés was written on the hearing of survivors of the civil war testifying in the Ixil Genocide trial at the Supreme Court of Guatemala. This is where Chiquin's photographs of the hearing came in and were featured.
Career
[edit]Through the depths of politics in Guatemala, she diverted her attention in 2018 to the prejudiced communities and spoke up for them. This is where her photojournalism and documentary photography comes in.
The Search
[edit]Her biggest project of the start of her career began with a photobook called, "La Búsqueda[8]" published in 2018. This book contains stories of different women of diverse places in Guatemala who have been affected by the violations of the political system.[9] This photobook represented women victims and survivors that face the lack of empathy from Guatemala in obtaining justice after 36 years of war that the country went through.[10] That's why in her book, she speaks on the systematic violence against women that are not only seen in the individual cases, but in the cases where women organizations have tried to denounce violence, corruption, and impunity and have had to face a response of abuse, criminalization, and death.[11] Because of this big acknowledgement that she made within the community of advocates for women's rights, she was inspired to keep the series going. That's where the second edition came in 2022. This time around, she gave the new edition a more pronounced theme where she brings photographs of women who have fought for justice in cases of sexual violence, genocide, and femicide. She wanted to make it identifiable that there was an almost permanent war against women.[12] These two editions have been exhibited in Guatemala and in Spain where she expresses the objective in photographically documenting the struggles, support, and fight of memory for truth and justice.[2] She's done several book talks, being invited to many cities where everyone is welcome to support and join. She also did a collaboration with Entreamigos-Lagun Artean[13] in 2024 doing an exhibition for Cristina's book[14] all over Guatemala, and some states of Spain.
Ixchel Guatemalan Women
[edit]The group of Ixchel women are an autonomous Guatemalan feminist collective that demonstrates the battles of Guatemalans who aren't heard, as well as promote training and information through communication and networks of feminism.[15] Chiquin is the founder of this group, where their website includes the testimonies and stories of many. The articles and photographs are primarily from Chiquin, but through the group of editors and article authors which are members of the Ixchel women, they report a series of cases creating a collective of terror going on in the country[5]. Their website, "Nuestra Memoria Nuestra Verdad[16](NMNV)," (Our memory, our truth) is a space showcasing images that display women's lives specifically. By this group of women exposing the politics of Guatemala, they work together to break the history imposed by silence, fear and break away from the established order denouncing to share truth through communities.
Articles and Reports
[edit]Chiquin not only does photography, but also advocates through writings and publishing of articles. Most of the articles she has created are published on the NMNV[17] website, archiving approximately 40 of her original articles plus hundreds of original photographs. Overall, she captures 6 cases, where one mentions the embassy of Spain to denounce rape, torture, forced disappearances, robberies, massacres and human rights violations against the Guatemalan population in Spain.[5]
The IWMP features 4 of her most known articles. They cover the truth and realization of what the crisis of discrimination towards women looks like in Guatemala. One of the biggest highlights is her article and interview with the highest-ranking female official in the Executive branch, the Vice President. Cristina interviewed Karina Herrera in the beginning of 2024, talking about her upcoming and how she got to the stance she is in now. It was through her being surrounded by women who paved the way, encouraged her to do the same not just for herself, but for other women.[18]
It is through her photographs that she is being mentioned on articles and reports like CNN International,[19] Committee to Protect Journalists[20] (CPJ), Plaza Pública,[21] and local Guatemalan news outlets like, No Ficción.[22]
Social Media
[edit]Chiquin has gained a following through Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, portraying to the media what happens in Guatemala, specifically in the political realm. Because she is a freelance photojournalist, her main source of portraying her photographs is through her own platform and following. She has over 1,000 posts portrayed on her Instagram account (@cristinachiquin[23]) containing almost 3,000 followers. As for Facebook (Cristina Chiquin[24]), she expresses more intimate and personal moments on there, but still publicizes her works and featured articles. On twitter (@cc_chiquin[25]) she posts similar content, but makes her opinions more known and clear, where she talks about where she stands, what she believes in, and what she fights for. All together, she has almost 5,000 people following her work on her platforms.
Works
[edit]International Women's Media Foundation Articles[26]
Nuestra Memoria Nuestra Verdad Foto Reports[27]
Photographs on everyday Guatemalan Life[28]
External links
[edit]International Women's Media Foundation
Nuestra Memoria Nuestra Verdad
La Búsqueda (limited preview) Photobook
Committee to Protect Journalists
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.leioa.net/uploads/n2426_Dossier_fotogr%C3%A1fico_La_b%C3%BAsqueda.pdf
- ^ a b c "Silvia Cristina Chiquin Rodriguez - IWMF". www.iwmf.org. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
- ^ "Home - english".
- ^ a b "SDN #1 Cristina Chiquin – Photojournalist". Miradanativa.org. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
- ^ a b c dice, Oihane de Gana Romero (2016-02-19). "nuestra memoria nuestra verdad". nuestra memoria nuestra verdad (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ "Search".
- ^ "SDN #1 Cristina Chiquin – Photojournalist". Miradanativa.org. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ https://www.leioa.net/uploads/n2426_Dossier_fotogr%C3%A1fico_La_b%C3%BAsqueda.pdf
- ^ Chiquin, Cristina (2018). La Búsqueda [The Search] (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Verlag nicht ermittelbar (published 2019). ISBN 9789993900047.
- ^ "PRESENTAMOS "LA BÚSQUEDA" FOTOLIBRO Y EXPOSICIÓN • Entreamigos - Lagun Artean". www.lagungt.org (in European Spanish). 2023-09-28. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ Entreamigos- Lagun Artean (2023-01-16). "𝗟𝗔 𝗕Ú𝗦𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗗𝗔 𝗜𝗜" | 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙞ó𝙣 𝙮 𝙁𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙤 de Cristina Chiquin Rodríguez //"𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗔 𝗜𝗜". Retrieved 2025-04-30 – via YouTube.
- ^ "La Búsqueda: recuperando la mirada y lucha de las mujeres". RUDA (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ https://www.lagungt.org/
- ^ "Instagram".
- ^ "Grupo de Mujeres Ixchel". grupodemujeresixchel.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ https://nuestramemorianuestraverdad.wordpress.com/
- ^ https://nuestramemorianuestraverdad.wordpress.com/
- ^ "Karin Herrera: "Siempre estuve rodeada de mujeres que abrían brecha" - IWMF". www.iwmf.org. 2024-03-14. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ "General goes on trial for genocide, 40 years after Guatemala's bloody civil war". 13 April 2024.
- ^ "CPJ calls for release of José Rubén Zamora after Guatemala judge orders the journalist back to jail". 10 March 2025.
- ^ "Más casos de violencia contra la mujer son desestimados durante la gestión de Consuelo Porras".
- ^ "No fue el Fuego, los Sueños de Kimberly Castillo". 22 December 2024.
- ^ "Instagram".
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/cristina.chiquin
- ^ https://x.com/cc_chiquin
- ^ "Reporting - IWMF".
- ^ "Foto Reportajes". 9 March 2020.
- ^ "Instagram".