President of Dominican Republic Delights in Aerial Photos Depicting The Country

Dr. Leonel Fernandez, President of the Dominican Republic and Honorary President of GFDD and FUNGLODE, on a trip to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly, took the opportunity to visit the photo exhibit “New Perspectives: Dominican Republic”, an initiative of GFDD and FUNGLODE, located at the City University of
New York (CUNY) until October 31.

Dr. Fernandez enjoyed a stunning selection of 56 aerial images that portrays parts of the country in a way it has never been seen before.

The President highly encouraged audiences to embark on a journey of rediscovery and to experience for themselves the unexpected images, vivid sensations and
revealing information that the “New Perspectives: Dominican Republic” exhibit provides about the country and its people.

While at CUNY, President Fernandez was given a comprehensive tour of Dominican Studies Institute (DSI) facilities, the first, university-based research institute in the United States devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent.

CUNY DSI, an active institutional partner of GFDD and FUNGLODE houses the
Dominican Archives and the Dominican Library, the first and only institutions in the United States collecting primary and secondary source material about people of Dominican descent. In 2010, the Institute opened its Archives and Library facility to art exhibitions thus becoming the first exhibit space in New York City devoted exclusively to Dominican people.  The Institute organizes lectures, conferences, and exhibitions that are open to the public.

The President said that CUNY DSI, headed by renowned sociologist and public intellectual Ramona Hernández, has become a locus for a community of scholars, including doctoral fellows, in the field of Dominican Studies and sponsors multidisciplinary research projects.

The “New Perspectives: Dominican Republic” exhibit,  based
on the book of the same name by Editor-In-Chief Natasha Despotovic and  featuring the work of photographer Anne Casale, is simultaneously showing at University of Rhode Island Feinstein Campus in Rhode Island in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Later in October, it travels to Santiago, Chile in collaboration with the Chilean government.

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Related links:

http://www.newperspectivesdominicanrepublic.com/www/default_en.html

http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/ci/dsi/