Honduras
Archivo Honduras Cuir
In this podcast, we delve into the embodied history of the the Archivo Honduras Cuir, through the voices of two of its guiding lights: photographer and intuitive archivist Abigail Reyes, and photographer and cultural manager Dany Barrientos Ramírez. With them, we explore the map of the violence, displacement, resistance, and late-night parties of the trans and queer experience: an archive that began as an urgent gesture of reparation in the face of erasure and death. When friends are murdered and not a single image remains, documenting becomes a way of sustaining life over oblivion. We talk about intimate and domestic photography as a practice of resistance, about hacking newspaper archives to piece together the lives and miracles of the community’s ancestors, and about the political power of collecting images in a country that seems to avoid preservation by design. We also speak about images that are missing, and about the archive as a tool for future reparation and community healing. And we imagine the archive as swarm of fireflies: a fragile, shining, collective way of emphasising memory.