| Summary: | "Over the last nine years, Puerto Rican photographer Christopher Gregory-Rivera has embarked on an unsparingly honest, extensively researched project documenting one of the longest continuous Puerto Rican surveillance programs on its own citizens. 'This book, made to resemble a dossier, is culled from the remarkable photographs held by the National Archives of Puerto Rico,' juror Lesley A. Martin notes. The book draws from over forty thousand surveillance images taken between 1940 and 1987. Further amplified by the inclusion of a surveillance manual detailing monitoring techniques, Rivera's full-scale, photographic reproductions boldly bear witness to the state's fraught colonialist history.' The choice of the bindin[g] bolts and Risograph printing, with its resemblance to photocopies and newsprint," notes Martin, 'is an apt way to produce a book that draws on such seemingly haphazard but ultimately sinister imagery.' Replete with primary textual and visual evidence, 'El Gobierno Te Odia' illuminates and critiques the violent and systematic suppression of government surveillance during a pivotal time in the Puerto Rican independence movement.-Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Short List Award Review."--Artist's website https://chrisgregory.co/EGTO/
"In 2015, the photographic archive of the secret police in the National Archives of Puerto Rico was declassified. This book is made up of images from that archive of over 40,000 images and paired with a surveillance manual given to officers detailing watching techniques. The manual is transcribed as is, preserving typographical errors, and translated into english."--Page 87.
"The final component of the book are stills from a leaked police video documenting protests In 2017."--Page 87.
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