BOCA RATON.- The Boca Raton Museum of Art presents the exhibit Manuel Carrillo: A Mexican Master. The poetic vision of photographer Manuel Carrillo (Mexican, 1906-1989) - often called the Ansel Adams of Mexico - captures the cultural and historical memory of the indigenous people of post-revolutionary Mexico. This selection of 26 Carrillo photographs from the Museum's collection reveals the photographer's great commitment to "mi pueblo," the people and culture with whom he so passionately identified.

The exhibit is about photography and identity. The curator of the exhibit, wanted to bring Carrillo’s own identity quest to life through the interpretation of his photographs as text. While developing the exhibition it was concluded that a new ethnographic approach was needed in order to show how the Indigenous is constructed through photography. But it had to have the personal feeling, the "sentimiento" we very much wanted to explore and transmit. Terms such as displacement, border, location, explored in this project, come alive as a combination of images and poetry, not solely an academic discourse.

The challenge of museum exhibitions, virtual or otherwise, is to provoke new thinking, inform, and tell a story. We hope that this exhibition makes you think about Mexico as portrayed through Carrillo’s lens, about the indigenous Mexican, and about identity as a social construct.