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Image Not Available for [Sumo Indian girl (arms akimbo behind head) in village on Atlantic coast of Nica. I lobbied the revolutionary leaders for weeks to get permission and transport to the east coast. When they finally granted it the flight on ancient 1930s aircraft was terrifying. It basically crash landed on a grass strip on the coast and never flew again. We were shaken up but not injured. Once there I discovered I had miscalculated. No one spoke Spanish (just indigenous languages) so I couldn't do any interviews. Hence kids.]
[Sumo Indian girl (arms akimbo behind head) in village on Atlantic coast of Nica. I lobbied the revolutionary leaders for weeks to get permission and transport to the east coast. When they finally granted it the flight on ancient 1930s aircraft was terrifying. It basically crash landed on a grass strip on the coast and never flew again. We were shaken up but not injured. Once there I discovered I had miscalculated. No one spoke Spanish (just indigenous languages) so I couldn't do any interviews. Hence kids.]
Image Not Available for [Sumo Indian girl (arms akimbo behind head) in village on Atlantic coast of Nica. I lobbied the revolutionary leaders for weeks to get permission and transport to the east coast. When they finally granted it the flight on ancient 1930s aircraft was terrifying. It basically crash landed on a grass strip on the coast and never flew again. We were shaken up but not injured. Once there I discovered I had miscalculated. No one spoke Spanish (just indigenous languages) so I couldn't do any interviews. Hence kids.]

[Sumo Indian girl (arms akimbo behind head) in village on Atlantic coast of Nica. I lobbied the revolutionary leaders for weeks to get permission and transport to the east coast. When they finally granted it the flight on ancient 1930s aircraft was terrifying. It basically crash landed on a grass strip on the coast and never flew again. We were shaken up but not injured. Once there I discovered I had miscalculated. No one spoke Spanish (just indigenous languages) so I couldn't do any interviews. Hence kids.]

Creator Michael Mitchell (Canadian, 1943 - 2020)
Date1984
Mediumchromogenic print
Dimensions50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in.)
Credit LinePurchase, with funds donated by Rupert Duchesne and Holly Coll-Black, 2012
Category
    Object number2012/25.4
    LocationNot currently on display

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    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.]
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