Photography in Latin America 2012 - Part 5 of 5

I am excited to have co-curated F-Stop Magazine #54: The Latin America Issue in collaboration with F-Stop editor Christy Karpinski. We worked through a large submission pool to select 353 images to feature.

Of those images, I have selected 100 to show here on fototazo over 5 posts. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here.

I am making this selection for a couple of reasons. The layout of this site would make republishing the entire selection featured on F-Stop difficult, plus duplicating the entirety of the images featured a click away doesn't seem necessary.

In exchange, pulling out 100 of the 353 accepted submissions gave me a chance to continue to enjoy looking through the images and to challenge myself as an editor to make decisions to get to what I truly feel are the strongest photographs submitted. I did not limit the number of images for any particular photographer - if someone happened to have made 5 of the best 100, so be it.

I am including 2012 in the post title because I would like this to be an annual feature on this site. fototazo is based in Colombia, and I have become aware since moving here of the lack of deserved presence of Latin American photography in the international online photography world. I would like this site to continue to move towards helping to fill that absence. There is a lot of exciting work being produced here - it just needs better distribution opportunities.

One last note: the 100 images are not in any particular order other than a little intuitive sequencing.

Here is the fifth and final group of 20 images of Photography in Latin America 2012.

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Arturo Soto, Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá
untitled, Mexico City, 2010

Bárbara Oettinger Searle, Santiago de Chile, Chile
untitled, from the series "Mas de los Mudos"

Nayeli Cruz Bonilla, Ciudad de México, México
untitled

Cristóbal Traslaviña Berrios, Valparaíso, Chile
untitled, from the series "Hogar, dulce hogar?"

Frederic Vanwalleghem, Belgium
Retrato, from the series "Retratos en tu cuarto"

Alejandro Reinoso, Quito, Ecuador
Víctor y Angie

Edite Haberman, California, USA
untitled, from the series "Sangre, Sudor y Lagrimas"

Lorena Endara, Panamá
Billboard #6

Nayeli Cruz Bonilla, Ciudad de México, México
untitled

Aglae Cortés Zazueta, Ciudad de México, México
Invisible Landscape IV, from the series "Duality of the Landscape"

Robert Kalman, Brewster, New York, USA
Grettel Martinez

This diptych is part of a series of photographs of people living in Larreynaga, Nicaragua photographed 20 years apart.

Martín Batallés, Montevideo, Uruguay
untitled

Gustavo Ruiz Lizárraga, Ciudad de México, México
untitled (Escena #1)
2012

LimaFotoLibre, Lima, Perú
untitled

Aura Alejandra Lambertinez Duque, Medellín, Colombia
untitled, from the series "Plaza Vanidad"

Micky Absil, Colebrook, Ontario, Canada
Padre (Antigua, Guatemala)

Monica Denevan, San Francisco, California, USA
Song to Rain, Venezuela

Romy Pocztaruk, Porto Alegre, Brasil
The last adventure of Emilio Medici
2011

Keith Prue, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Tijuana, Mexico
2007

Juan Orrantia, Johannesburg, South Africa (b. Bogotá, Colombia)
Faces, bodies, sons and daughters, the simple things that once were invisible, from the series "The Afterlife of coca dreams" (Colombia)

Photography in Latin America 2012 - Part 4 of 5

I am excited to have co-curated F-Stop Magazine #54: The Latin America Issue in collaboration with F-Stop editor Christy Karpinski. We worked through a large submission pool to select 353 images to feature.

Of those images, I have selected 100 to show here on fototazo over 5 posts. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here.

I am making this selection for a couple of reasons. The layout of this site would make republishing the entire selection featured on F-Stop difficult, plus duplicating the entirety of the images featured a click away doesn't seem necessary.

In exchange, pulling out 100 of the 353 accepted submissions gave me a chance to continue to enjoy looking through the images and to challenge myself as an editor to make decisions to get to what I truly feel are the strongest photographs submitted. I did not limit the number of images for any particular photographer - if someone happened to have made 5 of the best 100, so be it.

I am including 2012 in the post title because I would like this to be an annual feature on this site. fototazo is based in Colombia, and I have become aware since moving here of the lack of deserved presence of Latin American photography in the international online photography world. I would like this site to continue to move towards helping to fill that absence. There is a lot of exciting work being produced here - it just needs better distribution opportunities.

One last note: the 100 images are not in any particular order other than a little intuitive sequencing.

Here is the fourth group of 20 images of Photography in Latin America 2012.

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Mariela Sancari, Ciudad de México, México
Longing

Ekaterina Vasilyeva, St. Petersburg, Russia
untitled (Mexico)

Stan Raucher, Seattle, Washington, USA
La salida, from the series "Central de Autobuses de Segunda Clase"

Eugeni Gay Marín, Barcelona, Spain
From the quantum island 02 (Bolivia)

Natalia Lopera Guzmán, Medellín, Colombia
Regazo 2

Romy Pocztaruk, Porto Alegre, Brasil
The last adventure of Henry Ford
2011

Nayeli Cruz Bonilla, Ciudad de México, México
untitled

Daniel Kramer, Houston, Texas, USA
Albino

Juan Orrantia, Johannesburg, South Africa (b. Bogotá, Colombia)
The old house, the business, the same history and explanations, from the series "The Afterlife of coca dreams"

Juan Orrantia, Johannesburg, South Africa (b. Bogotá, Colombia)
What remains is a kind of sameness, from the series "The Afterlife of coca dreams"

Avahita Avalos, Paris, France (Villahermosa, Tabasco, México)
Estetica Martha

Blazej Marczak, Edinburgh, Scotland
High Plains Football Pitch

Alan Hunter, Seattle, Washington, USA
untitled

Eddie Wexler, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA
Horse, Ajijic, Mexico

Gerardo Montiel Klint, Ciudad de México, México
untitled, from the series "Primeros apuntes para una teoría del infierno"

Kathleen Hayes, Long Island, New York, USA
Palms (Perú)

Santiago Rúa Henao, Medellín, Colombia
Cometa bajo cielo, from the series "Infancias extrañas"

Mariana Lerner, Buenos Aires, Argentina
El Hombre de mi vida - día 14

I remembered the historical-dionisyan eloquence of an inflamed teacher and the practical demonstration of how the heat goes down from the head and how neurons command everything. I remembered that sort of Roman circus full of desks and thirsty, impassive females, letting themselves go into that intellect, oratory drag, thinking beyond the words, thinking about the right here and now of each one (fortunately, the culture is based on taboos). And when I went over to get more of that, I found him on a couch, under poor light, with his hands arriving to his daughter, his books, his collections, as if they were bumping into everything and like everything belonged to someone else. He gave me advice about love, about how not to wait for the love of my life, he developed a story of love relationships from the 40s to today. He made me doubt everything. Until today. I went to his home and his little daughter wasn't there and there weren't traces of his wife either: I have to say no because I separated four months ago, for the fourth time, from the same woman. Unfortunately, men are just people - and he shrugged his drooping shoulders. Then he said: I'm sorry to disappoint you. I said: it's fine. So I went away dodging dogs and clinging to my search, looking to little old ladies who stopped to look at the treetops. I was not disappointed and that is my triumph, I'm his exception.

Patrick Chan, Ciudad de México, México
Day of the dead

Patrick Lopez Jaimes, México
Iglesia / church, from the series "Inconcluso / Espacio Suspendido"

Photography in Latin America 2012 - Part 3 of 5

I am excited to have co-curated F-Stop Magazine #54: The Latin America Issue in collaboration with F-Stop editor Christy Karpinski. We worked through a large submission pool to select 353 images to feature.

Of those images, I have selected 100 to show here on fototazo over 5 posts. Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 can be found here.

I am making this selection for a couple of reasons. The layout of this site would make republishing the entire selection featured on F-Stop difficult, plus duplicating the entirety of the images featured a click away doesn't seem necessary.

In exchange, pulling out 100 of the 353 accepted submissions gave me a chance to continue to enjoy looking through the images and to challenge myself as an editor to make decisions to get to what I truly feel are the strongest photographs submitted. I did not limit the number of images for any particular photographer - if someone happened to have made 5 of the best 100, so be it.

I am including 2012 in the post title because I would like this to be an annual feature on this site. fototazo is based in Colombia, and I have become aware since moving here of the lack of deserved presence of Latin American photography in the international online photography world. I would like this site to continue to move towards helping to fill that absence. There is a lot of exciting work being produced here - it just needs better distribution opportunities.

One last note: the 100 images are not in any particular order other than a little intuitive sequencing.

Here is the third group of 20 images of Photography in Latin America 2012.

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Karen Paulina Biswell, Bogotá, Colombia
La Sobrina

Leslie Granda-Hill, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Jennifer

Laura Noel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Concrete House, Havana
2007

Gustavo Ruiz Lizárraga, Ciudad de México, México
Un final 
2012

Luis Circa Melgarejo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sanfran

Katya Evdokimova, London, United Kingdom
untitled (Colombia)

Michael Jerome Wolff, New Mexico, USA
Endless Rain

Arturo Soto, Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá
Untitled, Mexico City
2010

Robert Kalman, Brewster, New York
Carlos Rojas

This diptych is part of a series of photographs of people living in Larreynaga, Nicaragua photographed 20 years apart.

Nayeli Cruz Bonilla, Ciudad de México, México
untitled

Alessandro Falco, Pescara, Italy
untitled (Pernambuco, Brazil)

Monica Denevan, San Francisco, California, USA
Machete, Venezuela

María Jose Sesma González, Ciudad de México, México
untitled, from the series "Todo en Orden"

Kellie Cason O'Connor, Pueblo, Colorado, USA
El Bebé de las Piedras (Guatemala)

Silvino González Morales, Bogotá, Colombia
Bipolar 06

John Oliver Hodges, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Cuernavaca #4

Mariana Lerner, Buenos Aires, Argentina
El Hombre de mi vida - día 30

Love of my life – October 30th. A new friend who asks me where I am, why am I not seeing the group, who says to me on the phone: Comeeeeeee. I smile while my eyes shrink until I suddenly think, alarmed: how close does he want me to be?

Jael Orea Arenas, Ciudad de México, México
untitled

Eddie Wexler, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA
Dog Tail, Pátzcuaro, Mexico

Sancert Choabert, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Eternal Rest of Hel