Living at Risk: The Story of A Nicaraguan Family

[Susan Meiselas, Alfred Guzzeti, Richard Rogers]

New York: New Yorker Films, 1985. Offset. 8 ½ x 11 in.

Original distribution flier for Living at Risk, the documentary created by photographer Susan Meiselas, Alfred Guzzeti, and Richard Rogers and set at the height of the war waged against the Sandinistas by the Contras, the American-backed counter-revolutionary army.

Meiselas, a Magnum photographer since 1976, documented the Sandinista Uprising in great detail, taking the most famous and widely reproduced image from the conflict, Molotov Man, which depicts a man poised to throw a Molotov cocktail in his right hand while he holds a rifle in his left. Living at Risk continued this documentary work; the film is noted for providing a look into everyday life for a family committed to community organizing, agricultural reform, and medical care during five years after the revolt against dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle and in the midst of counter-revolutionary conflict.

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