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Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago Wanderer Publications 9-1-2010 Wanderer: A Special Publication of El Mestizo, Fall 2010 Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/wanderer This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Columbia College Chicago, "Wanderer: A Special Publication of El Mestizo, Fall 2010" (2010). Wanderer. 1. https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/wanderer/1 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wanderer by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ,,.~uoo or , ,u,14 ,ATAtAS 01'11"11)-~ - WAITERS AND letter f ram the editors PHOTOGRAPHERS CRISTINA AGUIRRE THE FlRSTTIME it crossed my mind to lAUREN 8ROSTOW117 KRJ$TA HINES It I take students to Peru remembered my OE\/IN KATAYAMA days living with the Shining Path, the not so DEREK KUCYNOA democratic Fujin1ori government and the LAURANAllH galloping inflation. But so much has changed SARAH 05TMAN since then. Today Peru presents the fastest EMIPETERS AMBER PORTER growing economy in South America and the SARA ROSEMBlUM terrorist movements have been so weakened GRACIA SAOTLER·TAYLOR that they are almost gone. LAUREN V\1 Ll.E \,\lhen many think about Peru, Machu BENITA ZEPEDA Picchu is the first thing that comes to DESICN !EDITORS mind. But there is so much more to the LUIS ARRIAGA th.ird largest South American country. It's OLMA CASTANEDA a mesmerizing and chaotic place with a rich culture located in a unique ANGELICA CHAVEZ geographical part of the world. ERIKA DAVI ERIN EDWARDS lt was tinlc to go there and provide students an oppo1tu11ity to explore MELISSA EHRMEYER new laods. JOREll ESPINOZA With the invaluable collaboration of my colleague Teresa Puente, who LUCY fROfMMUNG had already taken students to Mexico and Italy in semesters past, we MflAl<IE GALVAN BECCA JAMES decided to embark on this travel writing adventure. ASHLEY MCGUIRE Would students be interested in Peru? It didn't take too long to find STEPHANIE SAVIOlA out they were, even before we started advertising the class that took place BRIANNA WELLEN over J-term in January of 2010. BENrTA ZEPEDA We selected 13 students who cruue from the journalism, graphic design FACULTY ADVISORS and photography departments. They were excited to travel abroad and ELIO LETURIA even more during the South American sunnuer while in Chicago snow TERESA PU ENTE was piling up. This publication has been \\le spent 11 days in Llma, founded in 1535 with the nameof"City of ~foible thanks to the sponsorship and support of the Kings,"and three days in Cuseo, "the archaeological capital of the Daniel Aranda and the Office Americas." that was built over 2,000 years ago. of Multicultural Affairs of Columbia ColJe,ge Chicago, and Students reported, wrote, blogged, µholographed and produced Luis oavila.. Consul General. multimedia stories. Even though the course is called "rravel Writing" Consulate General of ~ u in the scope of their work went way beyond that. Every visit to markets, Chicago. museums, cultural a11d archaeological sites was fully documented. They SPECIAL TNANllS Ayde4 Leyva,. b«vti11, Oir«10f of experienced life with the local Peruvians by sharing stories, food and lr'l~i1u10 Pil1uano do Di~eiic, IPAD They Olri, Ri(Ml1, Journalism dance. produced a body of work that c~-plored aspects of daily life, Oep;,rtment GeneraJ Mana9fr and social issues, entertainment and culture. Ovis Greiner. Directer of lntem.;,tional Progr.t.ms. Columbia But we watJtcd a print example of their work, so we cl1ose 15 stories College Chic1190 that appear in this magazine, each one visually edited and designed by students from another class: Visual Joun1alism SP 2010. These pages are their final project. Teresa and I hope you enjoy what this talented group Student W.,,ckftr tna9alll\e Is of 27 students, who worked in eollahoration with each otl1er, bring to you. a studet11-prod1Ked Ptiilicatlol\ of the Coll.l'llbiaConege Chicago Elio lA!tmia and Teresa Puente JourNi!ism Department and the Hispank Journall5ts of Colt.a'l'tia student organization. It does not necessarify represent, in whole or in part,. the views of colege Columbia .-:Jn,inistratol'\ farutty or the C0&.1181 CNIC&IO student body. Wandffer magazine is a collaborative project produced by the Spring 2010 Visual Journalism students, Department of Journalism of Columbia Coll ege Chicago. Each student edited, designed and laid out each story as their final dass project. The artides and the photog,aphy were produced by the students who took.~ JTerm ddS.S Trav• I Writing: Peru and spent two we,el(s in Lima <1nd Cvsco. P~,u ir. January 2010, RIGHT 'The rwo <OvtfS for this iisve were de-signed bySteph.;mie ~viof<l and )ortJf Espinoz~. 4 student w anderer inside SEPTEMBER l010 llltllllltllllllllllllll!I ti !I II tttl tl UII 111111 1111 1111 IllII II II l flllll!!l!lll!llllfllII 1111 II !I fl II UII 1111 1111II II llllllllll lllllll!Tll!llllllllllllllf 6 ALPA RUNA•STYLE FOLK ART Ifit ·s pottery you 're after, nothiltg matches the unique style Pt111via11 orris: ond 1cod1tr Lto11idos Orfllono h(lltd('ve/()pe<l ()1,1fr 13 yCt:1r$ <>f prtN.-tice. Laure-n Brostowitz 8 AS THE WAVES ROLL IN Pcrovi<.lll 11atit.1(>$foi<I solace in ,i,Ji;19 the t.i,:(Jt.'tS<>f 1he Lo tin /\mc-rican coa:,1. 5ara Rosenblum 10 PERUGLIOING Mirt1Jlo1-cs is a pl(,ce (<> fly <md paragli<ling ow.r rhe P<Xific Ocean isa breathtaJting advcnh1N!. Laura Nalin 12 HEART OF A NEWSPAPER El Comtrei<> is the oldc;st Pvruvian newspopcr.fom1<led in May 1839. We toured with thedtvn of Penmlon jouniali.~n. Emi Peters 14 CLOUDY DRINK, CLOUDY PAST Whili; the histo,·y <)/ lhe drink's crootiou remains a ,ratio11al co1iflict. the PiscoSouru,ill<Jlu.,'(fy$ be Peru's most belot.-«f oockwil. Dt-rek Kucynda 16 SUSANA BACA 'S AFRO-PERUVIAN FLAVOR We visit<."CI the artist cit lwr lwusc i11 Barranco. J.. .fmu a.11d/ou11d out lrotu l1Ct' ]>(J.$$ion/or musicond ])OClry won her a Gi'Ommy. Emi Pete-rs 18 BOHO BEATS IN BARRANCO ni:o :;tT('t't musit:lans/oJ.!otu their pu:;si<m by ;x,rfom1it;g in u11 w1~1J neighborhood in /,ima. Benita Zepeda 20 MACHU PICCHU: WINDOW TO THE WORLD 11,c ~-cnth wender of the modcn1 tuorlcl u..'<,s not ori_gin(ll(y <li$<XIVC1'(.'(f by llirom Bingham. Lauren Wille 22 RUMBLE IN THE "INCA JUNGLE" J\lpaoo $U'f(1tcrs, bogs, pottery,jeu:clry, crafts llml s,0t,veriirs. A unique joumey through C\1$coS colo1ful m(lrl.,-ctplo~. Amber Porter 24 TAKING CARE OF THE " ABUELITOS" An elder oort prog1'(1m u,kes core of the ~nior cih'1.e11s in oroosofnc<:d i,1 limct Pcm. Crist ina Aguirre 26 BEGGING TO LIVE 11u's is the story of Pt:mm'an "'st1ttt ki(I~", "forced by J)()IX!rty a,td di-sodt.:OlllQge to bcoome provid<:rs/Qr their Jomilie:s much I()() :5c)Qtt. Sara Ostman 28 PERUVIAN LADIES OF THE NIGHT i\ u.'(lfk Qn the strctd$ QjJ,imu , Pent to expWre the bU$iness of pro$litution. Devin Katayama 30 FINDING MY ROOTS A young u.~m,m:~jc,unu:y offi n,Iiirg where she was born um/ N?jk't·ting on the life she wos gi1.:cn. Krista Hines 32 INEXPENSIVE INK t.ookingforo tattoo but don't have thcfimd.-.j(,rfN'sh hlk? l.imaoJJt,-s offordcrbfe prices. Lauren Brostowitz 34 COCA, NOT COCOA Drinkinf} OX'(J tM tltfinitcly help.~ when you art , ,,ooo/ttr abolX!soo level. Gracia Satdter-Taylor ffl()TO$ l:/ KRISTA HIN(S, A.Y.8(R PORT(~ lAURA NAltl. 0.U Pfl(~ lJJJfUH H0$1'0.YITZ st~nt wo;nderer 5 If it's pottery you're after, ALftA RUNA STYLE nothing n1atches the unique ,.~ ....,... • style Peruvian artist and teacher Leonidas Orellana has developed over 13 years ofp ractice. PHOTOS AND STORY BY LAUREN BROSTOWITZ n t he district of Chorillos, in Lima, Peru, labyrinths of Ideverty constn;cted houses line the street. \f't/here calamines, or large metal plates, formed the t0of'S of ma2e·llke Peruvian homes, Leonidas Orellana Cast ro, a Peruvian ceramics artist. sat in his lime-<olored office and juggles a mass of clay between his hands. Surrounded by dozens of flawless nativity scenes and tiny hand-painted Leonidas Orellana holds up his latest piece, a baby Jesus, from a nativity set he has grown Noah's arcs, Orellana discussed locally famous for creating. wtiat has been his familys life's tradition, working side by side work for over 100 years. with his son and wife, Pilar Orellana, 45, was born in Guisado Gonzales who help hand Ayacucho, which is an artists' paint the abundant creations village where 36 church es stand that are conceived, molded, fired tall. It's no surprise that his work and painted in his home. He also has a strong religious inspiration. has four children. two chic.kem, He has been e<eating art for 13 three dogs, two pigeons and a years, and his work was recently guinea pig. These, he tells me, fea tured in the exhibit lnstituto are his children's pets. Cultural Teatral y Social's yearly " I try to make an artist ic contest, Navidad es Jesvs.