Call For Entries: Latin American Fotografia 7
Your atencion, please: Entries are now being accepted for Latin American Fotografia 7, the world's premiere competition highlighting photography from Latin American. Just by entering you'll have your work seen by an international jury of top creative professionals; winning work is spotlighted in an international traveling exhibition, as well as here at Pro Photo Daily. All Latin American citizens living anywhere are ... Read the full Story >>
Honor Roll: World Press Photo Selects Six Emerging South American Photographers
"There is no shortage of visual talent around the world, but some people are better known than others. To develop a new and more diverse visual representation of the world, we need to locate, recognize and share the best work." That is the directive behind the World Press Photo organization's 6x6 Global Talent program, which spotlights six new talents drawn from one of ... Read the full Story >>
Spotlight: Capturing Mexico From a Personal Perspective
Juan De La Cruz sees no needs to make perfect sense of the world. "I prefer not to make rational what is irrational," he says. De La Cruz, who lives in Veracruz, Mexico, was named a winner of the Latin American Fotografia 6 competition for "The Labyrinth," a complex project in which, as he puts it, "I've been capturing and filtering my personal ... Read the full Story >>
Trending: The Unknown Beauty of Afro-Mexicans
Until three years, Afro-Mexicans didn't officially exist. It wasn't until a 2015 census that Mexico acknowledged the 1.38 million citizens of African descent living in the country, and, noted the British Journal of Photography recently, despite that belated recognition, Afro-Mexican people remain on the fringes of Mexican society. BJP spotlighted Cecile Smetana Baudier, a French Danish photographer whose series "Diaspora; Costa ... Read the full Story >>