David Schonauer
Flipboard Wednesday June 4, 2014
You can now access the top DFLA posts from May at Flipboard, the app that brings you content from your favorite websites in a magazine-style format. As we’ve noted before, Flipboard is a great
way to view this newsletter and our other publications, Pro Photo Daily, Motion Arts Pro, and DART:
Design Arts Daily, on your tablet or smartphone. (Once you’ve downloaded the app, you must subscribe to the newsletter to access the MAP posts—see button at top.) Among the posts up
this month: A look at the International Center of Photography’s exhibition “Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1941–2012,” and a spotlight on a fantastical series of
images of Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian photographer Marcelo Tinoca. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday May 27, 2014
For nearly a year, Bolivian photographer Marcelo Perez del Carpio bore witness to a nightmarish scene: He had taken an assignment from the International Committee of the Red Cross to document the
crime morgue of La Paz, and what he saw was dreadful. "Bodies can lie unattended on the floor for months, and if they go unclaimed, they are buried in mass graves, making … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday May 13, 2014
"After some years working as a commercial photographer I wanted to transcend technique in search of identity and self expression," writes Brazilian photographer Neto Merhy, describing how he came to
photograph two young sisters dancing in Caraiva, a small village on the southern coast of Bahia. The Latin American Fotografia-winning image is part of an ongoing project in which Merhy is "trying to
translate … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday May 6, 2014
In 2013, Barcelona-based illustrator Miguel Pang Ly undertook a personal project that led to a dream. The project, Pang says, was to create an installation and exhibition at the Abracadabra children's
library in Barcelona that could be "enjoyed by children and adults alike." For the installation, he created a series of sequential images that would later be used for a children's book. One of … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Wednesday April 30, 2014
Photographer Janet Jarman, a winner of the Latin American Fotografia 2
competition, is perhaps best known for her epic 18-year project “Marisol: The American Dream,” a study of a family whose lives illustrate the complexity of immigration. She is now part of
an interdisciplinary team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that received a federal grant to explore how medical professionals look at—and interact with—immigrants, using
her photos to spark discussion and introspection. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday April 29, 2014
Between February and April, 2012, Brazilian photographer Luiz Maximiano attended the Champion's Forge, an amateur boxing competition in Sao Paulo. He was there not as a fan or as a sports
photographer, but to create portraits of the fighters for a fine-art project. Setting up a makeshift studio with a white seamless and strobes next to the ring, he captured the athletes immediately
after … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday April 22, 2014
"To rebel and break out is all young people wanted at the beginning of the '70s," writes Brazilian photographer Roberto Rosa. Born in Sao Paulo, Rosa fell in love with photography in college, and
moved around Brazil until he landed in Rio de Janeiro in 1977 and began his professional career. But the wanderlust never left his soul. It was while vacationing in Venice, … Read the full Story >>
Facebook Wednesday April 16, 2014
The “Los Diez” exhibition of selected Latin American Fotografía and Latin American American Ilustración winners was shown recently at the Casatinata art space in Bogotá, Colombia, and two of the Colombian winners, Ana Maria Trujillo (LAF 2) and Camilo Moreno (LAI2), were on hand to
display their work from the international competition. (See photos of the event at Facebook.) The “Los Diez” exhibition, sponsored by Epson, has traveled to a number of sites throughout Latin America and the US. Read the full Story >>
AI-AP Wednesday April 16, 2014
It’s time for you to enter this year’s Latin American Fotografía and Latin American American Ilustración competitions: The deadline for submissions in May 1. The contests are
open to all Latin American illustrators, photographers, creative professionals, publishers, agencies, representatives, students and art teachers living anywhere with work published anywhere for any
purpose. Also eligible are those working or studying in Latin America with work created or published anywhere for any purpose. International illustrators and photographers living anywhere who have
Latin American representation or have been published or exhibited in Latin America are also eligible. Go here for
details. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday April 15, 2014
Animals play a large role in the imagination of Mexican graphic designer and illustrator Marcelo Espinosa, and in his artwork. Wolves and dogs, frogs and panda bears are just some of his subjects,
depicted with fluid colors and, very often, surrealist meaning. A year ago, Espinosa created an illustration in which a horse's head emerges from swirling lines--a visualization, he says, of "the
constant … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday April 8, 2014
In 2012, Eric Michael Johnson had a rare opportunity to photograph neurosurgeons performing an operation called deep brain stimulation, a procedure used to treat people suffering from Parkinson's
disease and other maladies, including depression. Patients are awake during the operation, in which a pacemaker is implanted to send electrical impulses to specific parts of their brains. As Johnson
snapped his Latin American Fotografia-winning image, … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday April 2, 2014
Guatemalans have a saying to describe the violence in their country: "En Guatemala, la vida no vale nada." ("In Guatemala, life is worth nothing.") Lianne Milton, an American photojournalist who has
worked throughout Latin America, used the phrase as the title of an acclaimed project focused on Guatemala's violence and the impunity with which it is carried out. An image from the project--showing
a … Read the full Story >>
Marcela Angeles Wednesday March 26, 2014
Marcela Angeles is a documentary photographer based in Mexico City and Los Angeles who has contributed work to magazines such as VICE Mexico and Tribuna Libre; she is also a winner of the Latin
American Fotografía 2 competition whose work was included in the traveling “Los Diez” exhibition sponsored by Epson, and in coming weeks we will focus on her LAF-winning work; today
we spotlight her project “Daatun: Street Dentists in India,” focusing on an age-old practice in
the city of Varanasi. In Angeles’s images, we see one of the consequences of India’s poverty and poor healthcare and education systems. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday March 25, 2014
Seven years ago, Mexican photographer Cesar Rodriguez was in Tibet, traveling from Lhasa to Kathmandu on a bus. He couldn't help but notice that after going through high mountain passes, the driver
would stop and throw Tibetan prayer flags into the air. Rodriguez wanted to take a picture of the man, but couldn't leave his seat because he was suffering from altitude sickness. Eventually … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 19, 2014
Two years ago, Boulder, Colorado-based photographer Douglas Cushnie was in Nicaragua teaching photo workshops to students from the Fabretto Children's Foundation, a non-profit organization that
provides secondary education to youth in disadvantaged communities. Cushnie was teaching a class in action photography when a boy named Renato dashed from a classroom and began playing futbol in front
of his group--a perfect photo op that resulted … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday March 4, 2014
Oscar Wilde's classic fairy tale "The Birthday of the Infanta" is a tragic story of a dwarf who mistakenly believes that a princess is in love with him. In the end, he dies of a broken heart.
Colombian artist Diego Penuela's "White Rose," a winner of the Latin American Ilustracion 2 competition, is part of series of illustrations based on the tale. "The main … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday March 4, 2014
The Wayuu are an Arawak indigenous people located at the Guajira peninsula of Colombia and the Zulia state of Venezuela. Never subjugated during Spanish colonization, the Wayuu have survived through
the centuries. Photographer Diana Bejarano, who was raised in Colombia and moved to New York City at age 17 to study fine art, recently returned to her native country to document the Wayuu, snapping … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday February 25, 2014
"I'm a vintage lover. I love all the retro, not only illustration style, but also music, movies, and everything else," says Daniel Torres, an illustrator and graphic designer based in Mexicali,
Mexico, who was named a winner of the Latin American Ilustracion 2 competition for his unique take on the Greek myth of Caronte, or Charon, the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Wednesday February 19, 2014
For much of 2012, smiling tourists surrounded Joana Toro in New York City’s Times Square. Some hugged her. Some gave her a few dollars. Why? Because Toro, a native of Colombia and a past winner
of the Latin American Fotografía contest, was inside a Hello
Kitty costume, working alongside many other immigrants, mostly from Latin America, to earn some money by dressing as recognizable figure of American pop culture. Toro turned her part-time work into an
insightful photo project called “I Am Hello Kitty.” Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday February 19, 2014
Argentine photographer Eduardo del Burgo's Latin American Fotografia 2-winning image "Serendity" is part of a large fine-art project called "Physical Biophotography," which examines the relationship
between the body of the photographer and objects around it. In the work, del Burgo "re-prioritizes" the focus of photography away from the sense of sight. Instead, the concern is the sense of touch.
While photographing the objects in … Read the full Story >>
