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5.05.2020

LatAm f100: Florence Goupil and Víctor Zea

From the series "P'unchaw" © Víctor Zea

fototazo has asked a group of 50 curators, gallery owners, blog writers, photographers, academics and others actively engaged with Latin American photography to pick two photographers whose work deserves recognition.

This project aims to highlight great work being made in the region today and also to provide a starting point in both English and Spanish for exploring contemporary Latin American photography. LatAm f100 is a collaboration between fototazo and the photographer and educator Jaime Permuth.

Today we continue the series with selections by Álvaro Laiz. His biography follows his selections as well as a list of previous contributors to the series.

fototazo ha invitado a un grupo de 50 curadores, galeristas, escritores, fotógrafos, y académicos - entre otros individuos seriamente comprometidos con la fotografía latinoamericana - a escoger cada quién dos fotógrafos cuya obra sea merecedora de mayor reconocimiento.

Este proyecto es una manera de celebrar el gran trabajo que se lleva a cabo en la región. Asimismo, busca proporcionar un punto de partida bilingüe en inglés y en español a las audiencias que deseen explorar la fotografía contemporánea en Latinoamérica. LatAm f100 es una colaboración entre fototazo y el fotógrafo y educador Jaime Permuth.

Hoy continuamos la serie con selecciones aportadas por Álvaro Laiz. Encontrará su biografía al final del texto, así como una lista de colaboradores anteriores de la serie.

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El Viaje de Florence

Florence's photographs have something of an initiatory journey. They invite you to enter and lose yourself within the mystical imagery deliberately and calmly as the bodies of water that populate its images plunge you into the interior of a mystery that is barely revealed. With a focus halfway between art and photo essay, Florence draws the viewer into a transfiguring maze. A delicate and cunning approach to the ethnography and folklore of her native Peru, navigating the worlds of the visible and the possible, between what existed and what will exist...

Florence's Journey

Las fotografías de Florence tiene algo de viaje iniciático. Invitan a adentrarte y perderte en una imaginería mística y de forma pausada, con calma como los masas de agua que pueblan sus imágenes te sumergen en el interior de un misterio que apenas se desvela. Con un enfoque a medio camino entre el arte y el fotoensayo Florence arrastra al espectador a un laberinto transfigurador. Un acercamiento delicado y astuto a la etnografía y el folclore de su Perú natal navegando los mundos de lo visible y lo posible, entre lo que existió y lo que existirá…

From the series "Don Benito Qoriwaman" © Florence Goupil

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Long Live the Sun King
P’unchaw, Víctor Zea's first photobook, is much more than a street photo book. It is a song to his adopted city, Cusco. Using a concept as old as it is attractive (all light casts a shadow), Victor weaves a magnificent and delicate piece of visual metalwork. Cuzco is revealed as El Dorado, where the gold the Spanish were looking for shines on every page of the book and then disappears as if it had never been there. P'unchaw is a true compliment to the Quechua culture, to Cusco, but above all it is a Praise of the Shadow: Long live the Sun and Long Live its Shadow ...

Larga vida al Rey Sol
P’unchaw, el primer fotolibro de Víctor Zea es mucho más que un libro de street photo. Es un canto a su ciudad adoptado, Cusco. Sobre un concepto tan antiguo como atractivo (toda luz arroja una sombra) Víctor urde una magnífica y delicada pieza de orfebrería visual. Cuzco se revela como El Dorado, donde el oro que buscaban los españoles brilla en cada página del libro para desaparecer a continuación como si nunca hubiera estado allí. P´unchaw es un auténtico elogio a la cultura Quechua, a Cusco, pero sobre todo es un Elogio de la Sombra; Larga vida al Sol y Larga Vida a su Sombra…

From the series "P'unchaw" © Víctor Zea

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Álvaro Laiz (b.1981) is a Spanish photographer and artist whose work deals with narratives where traditional culture, nature and industrial development converge. In 2017 he published his first book The Hunt (Dewi Lewis/RM, 2017), a reconstruction of a Moby-Dick-like story of man against nature's most fearsome and efficient predator in the Boreal Jungle: the Siberian tiger. It was presented at Les Rencontres d'Arles 2017 and selected by the British Journal of Photography as Best of 2017. Álvaro´s work has been recognized by a number of institutions including Sony World Photography Awards, World Press Photo, Magnum and Ideas Tap Foundation Visura and Center Santa Fe. He is also the recipient of the 2016 National Geographic Explorer's Grant for his ongoing project "The Edge," a journey following the steps of the paleo-Siberian populations through the Bering Strait Bridge 20,000 years ago to become the first settlers in America.

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This series also includes responses from Molly Roberts, Mariela Sancari, Alonso Castillo, Paccarik Orue, Katrin Eismann, Dina Mitrani, Don Gregorio Anton, Cristina De Middel, Arturo Soto, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Livia Animas, Juanita Bermúdez, Susana Raab, the pairing of Victoria Holguín and Daniella Benedetti, Emiliano Valdés, Muriel Hasbun, George Slade, Marta Dahó, Elizabeth Avedon, Jorge Piccini, Rodrigo Orrantia, Sujong Song, Nelson Herrera Ysla, Oliva María Rubio, Jonathan Blaustein, Patricia Martin, José Luis Cuevas, Zully Sotelo, Alfredo De Stefano Farías, Gonzalo Golpe, Julián Barón, James Rodríguez, Misha Vallejo, Musuk Nolte, Cintia Durán, Alasdair Foster, Eder Chiodetto, Erik van der Weijde, Stella Johnson, Efrem Zelony-Mindell, Joana Toro, Jon F. Espitia, Sofia Ayarzagoitia and Isadora Romero.

La serie también incluye contribuciones de Molly Roberts, Mariela Sancari, Alonso Castillo, Paccarik Orue, Katrin Eismann, Dina Mitrani, Don Gregorio Anton, Cristina De Middel, Arturo Soto, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Livia Animas, Juanita Bermúdez, Susana Raab, el dúo de Victoria Holguín and Daniella Benedetti, Emiliano Valdés, Muriel Hasbun, George Slade, Marta Dahó, Elizabeth Avedon, Jorge Piccini, Rodrigo Orrantia, Sujong Song y Nelson Herrera Ysla, Oliva María Rubio, Jonathan Blaustein, Patricia Martin, José Luis Cuevas, Zully Sotelo, Alfredo De Stefano Farías, Gonzalo Golpe, Julián Barón, James Rodríguez, Musuk Nolte, Cintia Durán, Alasdair Foster, Eder Chiodetto, Erik van der Weijde, Stella Johnson, Efrem Zelony-Mindell, Joana Toro, Jon F. Espitia, Sofia Ayarzagoitia e Isadora Romero.

2.01.2017

LatAm f100: Mara Sanchez Renero and Roberto Fernández Ibáñez

fototazo has asked a group of 50 curators, gallery owners, blog writers, photographers, academics and others actively engaged with Latin American photography to pick two early career photographers whose work deserves recognition.

This project aims to highlight great work being made in the region today and also to provide a starting point in both English and Spanish for exploring contemporary Latin American photography. LatAm f100 is a collaboration between fototazo and the photographer and educator Jaime Permuth.

Today we continue the series with selections by Katrin Eismann. Her biography follows her selections.

The series also includes responses from Molly Roberts, Mariela Sancari, Alonso Castillo and Paccarik Orue.

fototazo ha invitado a un grupo de 50 curadores, galeristas, escritores, fotógrafos, y académicos - entre otros individuos seriamente comprometidos con la fotografía latinoamericana - a escoger cada quién dos fotógrafos emergentes cuya obra sea merecedora de mayor reconocimiento.

Este proyecto es una manera de celebrar el gran trabajo que se lleva a cabo en la región. Asimismo, busca proporcionar un punto de partida bilingüe en inglés y en español a las audiencias que deseen explorar la fotografía contemporánea en Latinoamérica. LatAm f100 es una colaboración entre fototazo y el fotógrafo y educador Jaime Permuth.

Hoy continuamos la serie con selecciones aportadas por Katrin Eismann. Encontrará su biografía al final del texto.

La serie también incluye contribuciones de Molly Roberts, Mariela Sancari, Alonso Castillo y Paccarik Orue.

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Mara Sanchez Renero whose documentary photographs blur into beautiful and compassionate fine-art environmental portrait work as seen in "The Cimarron and Fandango." Her environmental work is open in regards to exposure and light, but made mysterious with the addition of red cloth, balloons and artifact that ask the viewer to consider the mystery of yesterday's pain.

Mara Sanchez Renero cuyas fotografías documentales se difuminan en el bello y compasivo trabajo artístico de retrato ambiental como se ve en "The Cimarron and Fandango". Su trabajo ambiental es abierto en cuanto a exposición y luz, pero misterioso con la adición de telas rojas, globos y artefactos que le piden al espectador que considere el misterio del dolor del ayer.

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Roberto G. Fernández Ibáñez works in traditional wet darkroom techniques to create images that address the destructive aggression humans have towards our planet. The images are torn, folded and beautifully layered and draw me in to consider my personal impact on the environment.

Roberto G. Fernández Ibáñez trabaja en las técnicas tradicionales húmedas del cuarto oscuro para crear imágenes que abordan la agresión destructiva que los humanos tienen hacia nuestro planeta. Las imágenes están desgarradas, dobladas y bellamente estratificadas y me atraen para considerar mi impacto personal en el medio ambiente.

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Katrin Eismann is an internationally respected artist, teacher and author and is the founder and chair of the Masters in Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is the co-author of Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, Photoshop Masking & Compositing, The Creative Digital Darkroom and Real World Digital Photography and her images have been featured in numerous books, magazines, group and solo exhibitions.

3.31.2012

74: Lucia Herrero

Editor’s note: This week we are adding images to the gallery from photographers discovered while at FotoFest in Houston.

Lucia Herrero
untitled, from the series "Tribes"
2009

Series Statement: "Tribes" is a social analysis, a raw portrait of occidental society. Groups of families and friends set themselves up by the sea, equipped to spend a day in the sun. All this, harmoniously juxtaposed, seems like a poem of customs that reveal with humour, colour and tenderness, the profundity of a whole society.

These photos of modern-day beach groups are inspired by the studio portraits of ancient tribes who proudly posed in traditional costumes next to their prized possessions. The sky and the sea become the painted backdrop of the studio and the sand seems as if it’s sprinkled on the studio floor. The lighting and the theatricality of the groups add an element of fantasy to the portraits of real people in their natural surroundings. That enlightens a banal situation and elevates it to a state of exception. I call this way of social photography “Antropologia Fantástica.”

The series talks about the human condition during a moment of peaceful holiday, their pride of being there, their honesty and vulnerability. The objectively limited surrounding offers a complete extract of the essential.

This portrait of the "Spanish Tragicomedy" is meant to have many different interpretations. On one hand it talks about the Western middle class, which is suffering from an identity crisis created by the current economic situation. These images make us wonder what changes and what remains afterwards. On the other hand, they challenge the beauty concept of today.

The photos were taken along the Spanish coast and people were asked to participate in situ.

11.16.2011

41: Christian Rodriguez

Christian Rodriguez
Cindy, from the project "Mujeres Migrantes"
August, 2010

Cindy is from the Dominican Republic and she lived more than three years studying and working in Madrid. Last January she returned to her home in the city of Santo Domingo.