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Image Not Available for [I walked many miles down the narrow no-man's land between the southern shore of Lake Nicaragua where the Sandinistas were dug into the beach a couple of hundred yards from the Costa Rican border where you could see the contras dodging from tree to tree. It was a very tense. At the eastern end of the walk we encountered this eleven year old boy who was fighting for the revolution with his father. Tough kid.]
[I walked many miles down the narrow no-man's land between the southern shore of Lake Nicaragua where the Sandinistas were dug into the beach a couple of hundred yards from the Costa Rican border where you could see the contras dodging from tree to tree. It was a very tense. At the eastern end of the walk we encountered this eleven year old boy who was fighting for the revolution with his father. Tough kid.]
Image Not Available for [I walked many miles down the narrow no-man's land between the southern shore of Lake Nicaragua where the Sandinistas were dug into the beach a couple of hundred yards from the Costa Rican border where you could see the contras dodging from tree to tree. It was a very tense. At the eastern end of the walk we encountered this eleven year old boy who was fighting for the revolution with his father. Tough kid.]

[I walked many miles down the narrow no-man's land between the southern shore of Lake Nicaragua where the Sandinistas were dug into the beach a couple of hundred yards from the Costa Rican border where you could see the contras dodging from tree to tree. It was a very tense. At the eastern end of the walk we encountered this eleven year old boy who was fighting for the revolution with his father. Tough kid.]

Creator Michael Mitchell (Canadian, 1943 - 2020)
Date1984
Mediumchromogenic print
DimensionsOverall: 50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in.)
Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.)
Credit LinePurchase, with funds donated by Rupert Duchesne and Holly Coll-Black, 2012
Category
    Object number2012/25.2
    LocationNot currently on display

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    Image Not Available for [Two Sandinista soldiers in window of bombed building guard remains of Nicaragua's main oil port on the Pacific. Bombed by Reagan's contras a few days before.]
    [Two Sandinista soldiers in window of bombed building guard remains of Nicaragua's main oil port on the Pacific. Bombed by Reagan's contras a few days before.]
    Michael Mitchell
    1984
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for [Mother and Child. Although I was supposed to be on a strict program and schedule I often conned the jeep driver and got him to stop at the houses of ordinary people. I'd knock on the door and interview them about their revolutionary experiences and do portraits. This is one of same from the southern outskirts of Managua. I was later hauled up before a military tribunal for doing this and had to be rescued by the Canadian ambassador in Costa Rica. I was asked at gunpoint to sign over control of all picture editing and caption writing to the Sandinistas. I refused, hence the diplomatic intervention.]
    [Mother and Child. Although I was supposed to be on a strict program and schedule I often conned the jeep driver and got him to stop at the houses of ordinary people. I'd knock on the door and interview them about their revolutionary experiences and do portraits. This is one of same from the southern outskirts of Managua. I was later hauled up before a military tribunal for doing this and had to be rescued by the Canadian ambassador in Costa Rica. I was asked at gunpoint to sign over control of all picture editing and caption writing to the Sandinistas. I refused, hence the diplomatic intervention.]
    Michael Mitchell
    1984
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for [Little girl being thrown in the air at the moment Sandinista President Daniel Ortega announced that 16 year olds would have the vote in Nicaragua. Teens had argued that if they were old enough to fight in the revolution and die for it then they were old enough to vote.]
    [Little girl being thrown in the air at the moment Sandinista President Daniel Ortega announced that 16 year olds would have the vote in Nicaragua. Teens had argued that if they were old enough to fight in the revolution and die for it then they were old enough to vote.]
    Michael Mitchell
    1984
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for [17 year old boy/man winds bullet belt across his shoulders as he goes into combat against the contras in Honduras for 20th time. It's dawn, he looks 40 but is only a kid. We'd had a very bad night sleeping with rats on the ground while being mortar-bombed all night. Awful.]
    [17 year old boy/man winds bullet belt across his shoulders as he goes into combat against the contras in Honduras for 20th time. It's dawn, he looks 40 but is only a kid. We'd had a very bad night sleeping with rats on the ground while being mortar-bombed all night. Awful.]
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    1984
    Photograph
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    [Shadowed man digging in soil is a former executioner for the dictator Samosa that the Sandinistas overthrew. He is working on a prison farm.]
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    1984
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for [Former prostitute with sewing machine in a Sandinista rehabilitation program to train seamstresses.]
    [Former prostitute with sewing machine in a Sandinista rehabilitation program to train seamstresses.]
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    Photograph
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    Regulus II – Three of the spike-nosed new missiles are lined up as they come off the assembly line. The Regulus II is the second in a series of weapons for use on ships, submarines and at shore bases. In a recent successful launching, the missile was lifted by a two-ton auxiliary rocket. It flew 1,000 miles at a speed of more than 1,300 miles an hour. The 57-foot, eleven-ton pilotless aircraft can carry an atomic warhead to a pre-selected target. The Regulus II is almost twice the size of its predecessor, Regulus I, and is said to travel faster and to higher altitudes.
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    Image Not Available for The bicycle is not merely a vehicle for pleasure in southern Nigeria. This bride and groom had to cycle 70 odd miles from the church to a town called Aguta. The bride wore her wedding dress all the way, sitting on the carrier. From the lantern on the bicy
    The bicycle is not merely a vehicle for pleasure in southern Nigeria. This bride and groom had to cycle 70 odd miles from the church to a town called Aguta. The bride wore her wedding dress all the way, sitting on the carrier. From the lantern on the bicy
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    Photograph
    Image Not Available for "I'm sending you a lemon"
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