Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe
Rules for fighting

Photographs: Paola Jiménez Quispe

Publisher: Witty Books & Images Vevey

232 pages

Year: 2022

ISBN: 979-12-80177-15-5

Comments: Softcover, sewn binding, 20,5 x 15 cm, with a signed print (It will be selected at random at the time of shipping) and a leaflet of 'Rules for fighting'. Design by Paola Jiménez Quispe. Frist edition of 500 copies. Out of print.

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In February 1998 a businessman was murdered in Lima, Peru, it used to happen normally in different capitals of Latin America. He was an entrepreneur and he had a successful fabric business. I was 5 years old when this happened and he was my father. My family was really shocked and they didn't talked about the issue, so I grew up questioning lots of stuff about him and what happened and also having an urge to built a relationship with him. Besides talking with my family (who couldn’t really talk about it) and close family friends, I searched in my house for evidence about his existence or explanations of him suddenly disappearing.

First, I found some objects my father had when he was murdered that my mother kept, with this I found a police document, I learnt about why he was murdered, how, where and what “exactly” happened. Then I found a plastic bag full of undeveloped film rolls, my mother told me my father used to make tons of photographs, I developed them and found 706 images. I googled his name and I found a tiny press picture of his murder, I looked for it in the newspaper archive and I found it but bigger. I found videotapes he made about a trip my family did before I was born, and I finally found one notebook he wrote before he got married to my mother, he writes about marriage, relationships and love.

This project im working on is not only a journey of me trying to communicate with him through all these years. Is about how memory could work, how we try to remember and/or forget, sudden loss and death.


Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

Paola Jiménez Quispe,Rules for fighting

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