IDEX Images

At one of myriad planning meetings for Ignite Bay Area at Ritual Roasters on Valencia, I was struck by a recent photo exhibit featuring women working in Nepal, Bangladesh, Guatemala, and Zimbabwe. It was presented by the locally-based non-profit International Development Exchange and featured the colorful work of Jan Stürmann, Marlon Garcia and Paola Gianturco (author of Women Lighting the Dark, a book to benefit The Global Fund for Women).

The work was shown not in an effort to sell prints but to raise awareness of the organization’s work to provide long-term grants and access to resources to locally run organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America (including El Carmen Varituc, Guatemala, where the photo above was taken). More images can be seen on IDEX.org and at the organization’s offices at Valencia at 19th.