Into the Archives with Sofia Jaramillo
The Community LibraryGrowing up Colombian American in Sun Valley, Sofía Jaramillo spent time in and around the historical Sun Valley Lodge. In 2020, she was roaming the halls when she noticed that the photographs primarily featured white individuals. Drawn to the aesthetics of these 1930s–1950s winter sports photographs, Jaramillo pulled together a community of people of color in the outdoor and fashion industries as well as athletes from all over the United States to recreate these historical images of ski culture in Sun Valley. Posing on skis, relaxing with food and drinks at a lodge, or sitting back in Sun Valley’s iconically warm and bright winter sunshine, Jaramillo’s figures radiate joy, pride, and strength in the nostalgic, mountain atmosphere characteristic of après-ski. In creating the images that Jaramillo wishes she had seen as a kid, A New Winter encourages conversation around the origin of winter sports culture, offering a reimagined history and hopeful future that celebrates the richness and variety of those who contribute to it. Join Sofía Jaramillo, project stylist Terumi Murao, Wood River Museum Collections Specialist Ellie Norman, and moderator Martha Williams for a conversation on the way that Jaramillo and Murao found inspiration in the Library’s archives, and the ...