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Show www.thespectrum.com — The Spectrum ST. GEORGE NEIGHBORHOODS For the week of October 17, 2008 — 17 TRACKS e Continued from pg. 16 As a photographer, you are able to see what other people don't see. It makes it more interesting when youre not doing this for money.’ Perez, a business major at Dixie State College, is scheduled to present am exhibition of his photographs there in fall of 2009. Some of the things he has photographed around St. George might be considered junk by other people. Perez doesn't mind. He still sees them as footprints of humanity. His images include the nose of a 1950s model Ford pickup sticking out of a weathered barn door, or images of people'and places he has seen on two trips to Russia. A native of Mexico, Perez moved to Las Vegas in 1994. He moved to St. George in 2001 and married his wife, Tanya, in 2003. “She used to sing with the Heritage Choir and a friend invited me to a concert where I met her,’ Perez recalled. The couple has one son. Perez earned an architectural degree at Iteso University in Guadalajara before coming to the United States. He has been unable to practice that career here because of licensure issues. “I didn’t have any need to leave my country,’ he said of his decision to come to the United States. “I just wanted to know the world? Images of life Ernesto Perez, seen on the facing page as he contemplates photographs he has taken of relics that remain in our environs, calls these evidences of history the “footsteps of humanity’ » On opposite page, an abandoned Continental Oil tank is one of Perez's footsteps of humanity. » Above, the remains of a farm. » At left, the hood of an abandoned Ford pickup peeks out of a weathered building. Photos by Bob Hudson and Ernesto Perez |