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\"Photography
Grim Reality: Kendall Campus photography professor Tony Chirinos took photos of dead bodies for Requiescat in Pace, which was his thesis project at Columbia University.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TONY CHIRINOS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To most, Santeria and dead bodies seem like an odd pairing.<\/span><\/p>\n

But a new photo exhibition<\/span>\u2014<\/span>Hope & Reality<\/span><\/i>\u2014<\/span>by Kendall Campus<\/span><\/a> photography professor Tony Chirinos and his former students Ranses Fundora, aims to create a visual narrative of the contrast between religion and death. <\/span><\/p>\n

Chirinos\u2019 <\/span>Requiescat in Pace<\/span><\/i>, which means rest in peace in Latin, and <\/span>Fundora\u2019s project <\/span>God Boxes <\/span><\/i>are <\/span>featured at Space Mountain Miami, <\/span>738 N.W. 62 St,<\/span> through Dec. 20. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe support we received was overwhelming, I couldn’t have been more happy with the results,\u201d <\/span>Fundora said. <\/span>\u201cMoments like those remind me why I’m an artist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fundora, who <\/span>has been a lab technician at Kendall Campus for the past two years, managing the color lab, darkroom and digital lab, made the connection with Space Mountain Miami<\/span><\/a>, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides artists and musicians with space for exhibits and performances.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Tony
CHIRINOS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt definitely was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be,\u201d said <\/span>Fundora, who goes by the name Baker. <\/span>\u201cWe just showed [<\/span>Alicia Hancock Apfel, the owner of Space Mountain] <\/span>a few samples of what we wanted to show, a written proposal and once she okayed it, it was up to us to hang it the way we saw fit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Requiescat in Pace <\/span><\/i>was <\/span>Chirinos\u2019 thesis project when he was studying for his master of fine arts at Columbia University from 2001 until 2003. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe project actually started because I was interested in finding out more about my Catholic background,\u201d said Chirinos, who has been a full-time photography professor at Miami Dade College since 2006. <\/span><\/p>\n

As a medical photographer for Mt. Sinclair Medical Center, he was able to get access to a morgue. But when he first started, problems arose because most people only saw the dead bodies and not the artistry in the photography, such as the framing and timing. After consulting with Columbia University photography professor Thomas Roma, Chirinos asked a coworker to lock him in the same refrigerated compartments where the dead bodies were stored at the morgue. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"Ranses
FUNDORA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI went in and started hearing voices and started feeling people touch me,\u201d Chirinos said. \u201cThe scent was unbelievable.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Chirinos <\/span>black and white photographs show bodies wrapped in white sheets peeking out of the compartments and resting on steel gurneys.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever is looking at it, is going to have to confront the fact that you\u2019re going to be lying in one of these sooner or later,\u201d said 51-year-old Chirinos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fundora, 28, <\/span>started<\/span> God Boxes<\/span><\/i> when he was Chirinos\u2019 student at Kendall Campus from 2008 to 2012. He started referring to the small cement caves where hand held versions of saints are placed as God boxes after he heard a professor use the name.<\/span><\/p>\n

He wanted his photos to show that Santeria wasn\u2019t just about sacrificing animals. So <\/span>Fundora<\/span> drove around Miami, searching for botanicas and befriending people who owned shrines to create colorful photographs of saints, God boxes and religious offerings such as cake and flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I tell people that I did a project on Santeria, they expect blood and dead goats and what I was trying to convey to the viewer is that there’s a lot more to Santeria then that aspect of it,\u201d <\/span>Fundora <\/span>said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To most, Santeria and dead bodies seem like an odd pairing. But a new photo exhibition\u2014Hope & Reality\u2014by Kendall Campus photography professor Tony Chirinos and his former students Ranses Fundora, aims to create a visual narrative of the contrast between religion and death. Chirinos\u2019 Requiescat in Pace, which means rest in peace in Latin, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":12880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2749],"tags":[34,149,1171],"class_list":{"0":"post-12879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-kendall-campus","9":"tag-kendall-campus","10":"tag-photography","11":"tag-exhibition"},"yoast_head":"\nPhoto Exhibition Covers Dead Bodies And Santeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kendall Campus photography professor and his former student will showcase photo exhibition at Space Mountain Miami.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/want-see-dead-bodies-santeria-photo-exhibition-covered\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photo Exhibition Covers Dead Bodies And Santeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kendall Campus photography professor and his former student will showcase photo exhibition at Space Mountain Miami.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/want-see-dead-bodies-santeria-photo-exhibition-covered\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-12-09T00:51:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-21T17:23:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Hope-_-Reality3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1002\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Katherine Wallace-Fernandez\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Katherine Wallace-Fernandez\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/want-see-dead-bodies-santeria-photo-exhibition-covered\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/want-see-dead-bodies-santeria-photo-exhibition-covered\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Katherine Wallace-Fernandez\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6f56ada777413593f723480c54524bda\"},\"headline\":\"Want To See Dead Bodies And Santeria? 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