South of the border with Annie Appel
Running in the family Annie Appel’s “The Mexico Journeys – Carmelita” opens Saturday at the PV Art Center by Bondo Wyszpolski It’s one thing for a photographer to shoot hundreds or thousands of nicely composed or stylized pictures, and yet another to immerse herself in long-term projects, to venture out of her comfort zone, and to travel to places far away. And then, so to speak, to wash, rinse, and repeat. I’ve known Annie Appel for many years, and I’m still finding out about her extensive body of work, sometimes compiled into books, and just how dedicated and brave she is as she continues to seek new subjects, new projects, and always with a relentless commitment. One of those vast projects has the title of “The Mexico Journeys,” and we have to go back to the summer of 1994 to where it all started, by chance, really, when Annie was in Baja California. She encountered a woman named Maria, handed drawing pencils to her young daughters, met her husband Jaime, a bricklayer, and was invited in to their two-room adobe house. She was so impressed with their basic humanity that pretty much then and there Annie decided to embark on a 10-year project in which she could return to the…
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