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Redell Medrano

Hometown Astronomy

Redell Medrano

In Dominican, "pampara" means "lit". Across all of her work it is important for photographer Redell Medrano, born Dominican and raised in the Bronx, to centralize her semi-constructed systems around the colloquial, because it is also important for her to illuminate the inner worlds of her autofiction photographs. Like a telescope took to a nearby star she enlarged the culture of the Dominican Republic in 2020's PAMPARA, re-staging the real to pronounce herself prouder, and memory more visceral through the light-speed lens of childhood and the twinkling of heritage.

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