Latin American Fotografía 8 Winners

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Patricia Ackerman

los desechos vuelven, Son lo que insiste, lo que persevera. Desecho se refiere a cualquier cosa que ya no nos resulta útil, residuos, papeles, trastos, impurezas y suciedad. Hay cosas degradadas, pero también paisajes degradados, tiempo degradado y vidas degradadas.

ARGENTINA
Hector Adalid

Sorichike. In the Raramuri culture the dreams are a space for messages and trips ,its the way to communicate with the future with what is far. Because you dream " Pa saber lo qui va a pasar" (To know whats going to happen).

MÉXICO / USA
Solange Adum Abdala

Transmute perception of nature through the objectivity of photography by intervening and altering the materiality of the photographs through the destruction of their own components using bleach and ink. A thinner line is created between photography and painting.

PERÚ
Felipe Alanis

They say best friends share some tastes

MÉXICO
Lucas Amorelli

Jornal Pioneiro

Senegal voices

Caxias do Sul is a land of faith. Unsurprisingly, this feature is admittedly one of the main hallmarks of Italian immigration that has shaped habits and cultures around here since the late 19th century. But it is true that the Caxias of Faith was never of one faith alone. Among the various religious beliefs and practices that the city houses, one gains strength amplified by voices that sing with the vigor of those who wish to be heard far, more precisely, in West Africa.

BRAZIL / LOS DIEZ
Marcela Angeles Macedo

This series offer a raw look into the life of Cristopher Tronco Sánchez, a Paralympic swimmer, who has no arms and only one leg. These images show the emotional freedom that he feels from his sport. And when he is not in the water, he’s fulfilling his other passion - DJing at electronic festivals.

MÉXICO / USA
Tóia Azevedo

A self portrait made at an abandoned industrial shed in Itu, Brazil during and art residency in september 2018.

BRAZIL
Eden Bernal

Exiles is a project about three old women who, in the middle of their lives, decided to separate from their partners and move away from the society to break with the violence they suffered. Thus, in exile, all of them found the freedom that, because of their gender, was denied them.

MÉXICO
Seth Berry

Honduras on Fire

A man walks through burning tires used as roadblocks during a protest in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The protest was carried out by public university students from UNAH, and included faculty and the public--all opposed to the privatization of the education and health sectors.

USA / HONDURAS LOS DIEZ
David Betancur

www.david-beta.com

Mariana

En cuanto un aficionado toma una foto también pone en escena, de manera más o menos consciente(lo cual puede advertirse por la manera como dispone a sus parientes, o el manejo de las poses) diversas actitudes de intercambio, relaciones, emociones, deseos. Michel Frizot.

COLOMBIA / LOS DIEZ
CECILIA BETHENCOURT

Marcha por la legalización del aborto. En Argentina alrededor de 500mil mujeres recurren cada año al aborto clandestino, donde la penalización la hace mas peligrosa por la falta de recursos económicos de muchas. Elegimos el pañuelo color verde como identificación. Aborto legal para no morir.

ARGENTINA
Carlotta Boettcher

Carlotta Boettcher

Guadalupe Pilgrimage

The Lady of Guadalupe is the most beloved religious figure in Latin America with millions of devotees who travel, mostly on foot, to Mexico City to her basilica each year. I followed the pilgrims from Puebla and over the Popocateplt volcano to collect these images along the way.

CUBA / USA LOS DIEZ
Bárbara Bragato

The road, the photography and the Latin America literature are the starting points to this book, now with 80 pages. Smudged with coffee, tea and land, these pages, like a filing cabinet, are being created over time, with trips I've been making for over ten years, in these many places I call "home."

BRAZIL
Jennifer Cabral

MINE_IRA (9 of 11)

Using my family’s archives and images of my childhood I created a series of photographs entitled MINE_IRA. I played with words - “mine” as a noun, and a pronoun. But these two words quickly signified only one thing - that which is taken without permission. mine (noun) : a pit or excavation in the earth from which mineral substances are taken mine (pronoun) : that which belongs to me Once defined as a mine the terrain is subjugated to desecration and exploitation. No better symbol to such acts than “Serra Curral Del Rey” - a mountain ridge in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais which corralled and gently embraced my existence and that of the inhabitants of my hometown of Belo Horizonte as I grew up. Drawn from memory the mountain ridge of Serra do Curral Del Rey became a revealing layer - from negative to positive - bringing into light the hidden secrets of the mountain and that of my body - we were both continually corrupted and pillaged, we were both being abused. USA/ BRAZIL
Nicolás Cabrera

Nicolás Cabrera Visual

Sémina

Sémina.Tabio, Colombia /// Semillas, moléculas de luz. Esta serie continúa una búsqueda personal en torno a Universos Latentes y al interés por documentar patrimonios "invisibles". Las semillas retratadas reaccionan ante una luz que busca mostrarlas no inertes, recargadas de fuerza vital.
Nicolás Cabrera

Nicolás Cabrera Visual

Sémina

Sémina. Tabio, Colombia /// Semillas, moléculas de luz. Esta serie continúa una búsqueda personal en torno a Universos Latentes y al interés por documentar patrimonios "invisibles". Las semillas retratadas reaccionan ante una luz que busca mostrarlas no inertes, recargadas de fuerza vital.
Matias Cantella

Fuerza

Analog photos of a strong Latin American woman. Model: Johanna Barraza Tafur ( @jjbtafur )
Juan Carlos

Higway To Help

Higway To Help. Thousands of Central Americans from the Northern Triangle countries (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) embarked in a journey to reach the United States southern border in order to seek refuge in the USA and have the chance to have a better life, free violence and economic hardship.

USA / EL SALVADOR
Sandra Cattaneo Adorno

A cidade maravilhosa

For many young people living in the most disadvantaged areas of Rio de Janeiro, traversing the city and arriving at the beach in Ipanema represents the realisation of a dream. As a big equaliser, the sea allows Cariocas to celebrate their zest for life together, even if only for a moment.

BRAZIL / LOS DIEZ
Veronique Chapuy

Demolición

Demolición. México. This book reflects on space and memory through projections in the now abandoned house in which I grew up. These projections stage a chronicle of phantasmagoria on the border that confronts fiction with reality, conceptually resignifying memory, life and death.

MÉXICO
Jose Correa

José correa photo

Fisherman boat passing thru a concrete bridge

Fisherman boat passing thru a concrete bridge. Myopia is a street photography series of mine taken from 2015 to present times in which I confront the issue of how us humans we have been alienating ourselves by the use of mobile phones or by the speed and trappings pf our daily life in countries like ecuador, argentina, Italy and the Netherlands.

ECUADOR
Nayeli Cruz

Nayeli Cruz

Sacred journey

Tania suffered an attempted kidnapping which left her in a coma. The doctors gave her little life expectancy but her family refused to let her die. When Tania woke up, they made the promise to walk for three years to the Basilica of Guadalupe in gratitude for this new opportunity for life.

MÉXICO
Teodelina Detry

Uninhabited Places

This image captures the moment in which a young ballerina submerges herself into a dark zone where her thoughts about abandonment are neutralized by the freedom and vitality of her young body.

ARGENTINA
Mariceu Erthal Garcia

Gemma's parents with their missing daughter's dress

Through photography I touch the story of Gemma Mávil, disappeared since 2011 in Veracruz, Mexico. I inhabit her spaces, her poems, name her dreams, her forgetfulness and the memory of her desire to live.

MÉXICO
Tigre Escobar

Chloe Gosselin Campaign.

Conceptual Fashion Campaign.

COLOMBIA / USA
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo

Patria o Muerte

"Patria o Muerte" navigates the last years of Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions in decline without fear of clichés because it deepens with a search installed in the ambiguity through diptychs: what is left? what survives? what is remembered? how is the present memory of a political, economic and social transformation in process? who can replace their historical leaders? what could happen next? The project is structured through symbols and metaphors that represent actual Socialism; the remembrance of Communism; the utopia of the "new man" Cuban revolution and how it has been replicated in Venezuela. It also shows dependency on; the love-hate relationship to Capitalism; and their struggle against embargo and isolation, which continues to bring poverty and difficulties in quite a lot aspects of life, infrastructure and commodities. Also presents a view on corruption, use of power and military absolutism, lack of freedom of speech and fear to express feelings. The book is published by La Luminosa Editorial as winner of PREMIO LATINOAMERICANO FELIFA 2018.

COLOMBIA
Noah Friedman-Rudovsky

Americas Quarterly

A portrait of a local vendor at the Witches Market in el Alto, Perú, speaking out against the long-term presidency of Evo Morales.

USA / BOLIVIA
BRUÑEL GALHEGO RICCI

o poodle - 2014

this image were taken with Olympus Pen camera and film negative in black and white.
ORESTES GONZALEZ

Disruption

Disruption. Mario Fulvio, La Boca, Buenos Aires. A photo series of people that I have encountered on my travels or in my daily life hin NYC. These are people whose lives have been disrupted by economic or political forces larger than them. Although these people lead quiet, unassuming lives, they are nevertheless heroic and need to be celebrated.

CUBA / USA
Aarón González González

Clara, the last breath

"Clara: The Last Breath", is a documentary work about my grandmother's last year of life.

MÉXICO
Aarón González González

The wait

"In the Shapes of Pain" is a selfportrait work I made after being in a gas explotion accident, where 30% of my body surface was burned

MÉXICO
Ovidio Gonzalez S

The Hunter

The Hunter. In the Colombian Amazon, there are still indigenous people who depend on hunting. Ronie, is a Ticuna native who lives in the community of San Pedro, works in the capital of Amazonas (Leticia), but practices hunting as a livelihood for his wife and children. This proyect is an approach to indigenous communities, it is a reflection on the state of the territory and its people. It makes one think about westernization, conservation of culture, language and beliefs. It seeks to touch fibers on the sustainability of the environment and the impact on the Amazon.

COLOMBIA
Tamar Granovsky

Boy Dancing

Boy Dancing. This Miracle is a personal exploration into the human landscape of Brasil’s Bahia State. It reflects my evolving understanding of this evocative and poignant place and offers a private view of a complex people who struggle to survive and are sustained by core family values and religious practices.

ISRAEL / CANADA / USA
Jahel Guerra

Escaramuzas

Escaramuzas. On-going personal project exploring female identity. I traveled through diverse levels of privileges to learn how women relate to nature, and embrace their identity through culture in México. This image portrays Sandy, Natalia and Isabella Casillas at their Rancho outside Guadalajara, México.

VENEZUELA / SPAIN
Ignacio Iturrioz

Purgatorio

Ignacio Iturrioz´s work features the Palacio Salvo, the place where he lived for several years and a milestone in his life. The building is not photographed to be discovered or recognized, what drives the author is what is being kept in the Salvo, what is hidden and protected by the building. Purgatorio.
Luciano Koenig

Neo Apocalyptical Neurotic

Photographs for the album by the rock band Los Brigante.

ECUADOR
Pedro Kuperman

Maria's Garden

At 90 years of age, the gardener lives immersed in Maria's Garden. Named after his late wife, there is where life always blooms and impermanence rules. Despite life's adversities, the gardener remains eternal in his Eden, renewing himself like his plants. His immersion is not escape, but evocation.
Pablo Linares

The encounter

Every May 3rd, the nearby communities to the town of Macha, Bolivia, get together to fight each other and shed their blood as an offering for the Pachamama (Mother Earth). This ritual, which is called the Tinku (“Encounter”) or “Fiesta de la Cruz” is intimately linked to the harvest seasons.

ARGENTINA
Tim Llewellyn

Represented by Teeson Reps

Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital's joint venture, Ariadne Labs, sent me to Costa Rica to document the country’s Primary Healthcare system, which has become a model for the world. We traveled all over the country to tell the story. These are the faces of Primary Healthcare in Costa Rica.
Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro

Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro

Glitz and grit

Glitz and grit. Macau. Rundown neighbourhoods contrast with the glitzy Grand Lisboa hotel on Macau’s skyline.

PORTUGAL / CHINA
Dorit Lombroso

In these series I drew on the rules of painting, constructing the picture for the camera with the original source in mind. I photographed these series based on Latin American painters Frida Kahlo, Diego Riviera and Fernando Botero.

ISRAEL / USA
Monica Lozano

What Remains

Living in the border has made us witnesses to the devastation of the individual that occurs today. These contemporary still lives speak of an ephemeral world that forces us to rediscover the journey of the migrant, a resisting hero of our time trapped between two increasingly cruel worlds. The immigrant’s journey is one of those that manage to turn fragility into heroism. The series we are presenting challenges the spectator to witness a battle where every object is then turned into a life or death situation. It is necessary to realize that thousands of lives depend on a bag with everyday use objects, objects that have attained a sense of resistance, courage and strength but also uncertainty, dispossession, tragedy and cruelty. Furthermore, these objects obtain a spiritual hue that connects them to their origin.

USA
Monica Lozano

What Remains

Living in the border has made us witnesses to the devastation of the individual that occurs today. These contemporary still lives speak of an ephemeral world that forces us to rediscover the journey of the migrant, a resisting hero of our time trapped between two increasingly cruel worlds. The immigrant’s journey is one of those that manage to turn fragility into heroism. The series we are presenting challenges the spectator to witness a battle where every object is then turned into a life or death situation. It is necessary to realize that thousands of lives depend on a bag with everyday use objects, objects that have attained a sense of resistance, courage and strength but also uncertainty, dispossession, tragedy and cruelty. Furthermore, these objects obtain a spiritual hue that connects them to their origin.

USA
Gregorio Mariño

Capsulas Octogonales

Cápsulas Octogonales. Transeúnte del Centro de bogotá, Bogotá D.C. Cuando en la Ciudad de Bogotá empieza a caer la primera gota de lluvia, la gente empieza a esconderse dentro de sus paraguas. Cambian de ritmo, aceleran, van a toda velocidad tratando de escapar en sus cápsulas octogonales.

COLOMBIA
Luiz Maximiano

laif

Brazilian singer Luedji Luna. Veja Magazine.

BRAZIL
Dolores Medel

Sicurí

Sicurí. The night opens before the beings of water, entering the breath, the fear and the tense calm of the inhabitants of the Bolivian Chiquitanía. One of its greatest legends is the Jichi or Sicurí: the endemic anaconda; owner of the waters and the stars, giver of life, goddess of fertility. She becomes a woman and steals the soul with the eyes of those who dare to attack nature. Sicurí: you control the fire and hide in the moon. You leave those who invade you in ashes, those who do not respect you. He disappeared in one of those wet and muddy places that emerged in the region. There was silence. At dusk the inhabitants discovered how that swamp was now a lagoon of clear and bright water: the girl had transformed into Sicurí, the protective spirit of the waters, forests, stars. That is when the spirit manifests, the night arrives and the Sicuri leaves.

MÉXICO
Patricia Montrase

Isabel

Isabel. Self Portrait. "As I step through the door, I start the journey in life and end up in a meeting with the other side of the spectrum." The narrative goes through past and present. We see two worlds collide, grandmother and granddaughter. A loss that echoes in the present.

BRAZIL
Carolina Navas

Nos mIran / They gaze upon us

Nos mIran / They gaze upon us. I am interested in portraying Tumaco’s youth who lives between two worlds: the rural Colombian pacific coast and the eclecticism of the globalized world. Young people who, like their own geography, grow like metaphors of adversity where precariousness coexist together with beauty and hope. This photograph is part of the series Nos miran (They gaze upon us). This is Aimer Prado, a young empirical urban dancer and nursing student who lives in the Nuevo Milenio neighborhood in Tumaco, Colombia. The country's most violent municipality as a consequence of drug trafficking and the dissident groups of the demobilized FARC guerrilla.

COLOMBIA
Giorgio Negro

Boy and Balloons

Boy and Balloons. Chahuaytiri, Cuzco, Perú. Images taken around Carnival time in the Andean region above Cuzco, Perú, but not only related to the feast.

SWITZERLAND / LOS DIEZ
Lauren Oliver

This is a portrait of my partner taken on our first trip to Puerto Rico together. Separately, we both spent a lot of time on the island as kids with our families. It meant a great deal to revisit Puerto Rico as adults. Its a trip we continue to take each year and document our experiences.

USA
Daniel Orlando

Daniel Lara

El Brujo

El Brujo. Mexico/ Irlanda. Pequeña historia sobre el nacimiento de las piedras.Exploracion personal en el bosque de Irlanda, inspirado en la tradicion oral , mitos y leyendas de Mexico.Una reelaboracion de imagenes apoyado en los sueños y la intuicion. Elementos naturales, autoretratos y escenarios mezclados en b y n ,color.

MÉXICO
Joe Patronite

As part of the larger long-term project "My Americana" (now in its 5th year) a selection of imagery from what is increasingly an important aspect of the current state of the USA- the border between US & MEX.

USA
RAYNER PEÑA R

Psiquiátrico de Caracas

Psiquiátrico de Caracas. La paciente Kendy Aguilera. Una mujer con enfermedades mentales intenta salir por la ventana de su habitación en el Hospital Psiquiátrico de Caracas, Venezuela. El hospital no atraviesa por su mejor momento: Los Enfermeros no tienen como cuidar la salud de los pacientes. Viven sin luz, agua, tratamientos y escasamente comen.

VENEZUELA
Flower Power

The dancer

The dancer. Timothy Robinson , Burbank, CA. I'm deconstructing dancing to show how both voluntary & involuntary actions interact by capturing the move Step by Step will see how the body follows a choreography, but at the same time the image as a whole reveals expression Showing how dancing is in balance with voluntary and involuntary forces. School: New York Film Academy

COLOMBIA / USA
Alvaro Ras

Digital shot intervened in Photoshop. The magic of the dancer brings the elephant to dance with her; the ballroom in the downtown area of Buenos Aires and the last elephant that lived in captivity in the city's zoo.

ARGENTINA / USA
Remember When We Were Young

"This is America"

Personal Project "This is America" Joshua Tree We are interested in the conversations with the others, in how we open spaces and search for people that have different believes and perceptions of reality from ours.

MÉXICO / USA
Daniel Robles

Hymn among ruins 01

Hymn among ruins 01. Juchitan Oaxaca. A meditation on the temporality and the fascination of the ruins through images made in Mexico following the earthquake of Oaxaca (Mexico, 2017) and France (2018), on façadism scrapers in Marseille,

MÉXICO / FRANCE
Vanessa Rojo de la Vega

Magos Herrera

The talented jazz singer Magos Herrera at an abandon church in Harlem.

MÉXICO / USA
Flavia Romani

Flavia Romani

In Rainbow We Trust

"In Rainbow We Trust" New York, NY. is an homage to Stonewall, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and all the brave activists who have dedicated their lives to LGBTQ rights.

VENEZUELA / USA
Rafael Roncato

Adágio

Adagio. Laerte (1951) is an outstanding Brazilian cartoonist, comic strip artist and screenwriter. Born as a male, she came out in 2009, first as a crossdresser and later as a transgender woman. Adágio shows the power of commitment fixed in the ritualistic of these images.

BRAZIL
Carlos Saavedra

Americas Quarterly

A story on reducing crime among youth in Medellín, Colombia. The Black and White Crew, a group of break dancers who live there and say without dancing they would probably end up in gangs.

COLOMBIA / UK
Geralyn Shukwit

A selection of images from my ongoing project in Bahia, Brazil. Returning to visit with families and exploring into the Sertão with the Pankara Indigenous Community.

USA
Saleta Sierra Aragón

University of Cologne

Driving through the Alps is always breathtaking. My spirits rise with the immensity of the mountains and the whites and dark greens on the hills. If the sky is almost black before a storm, even better. This time however my breath stopped with the monstrous white. All in the name of the Progress.

SPAIN / GERMANY
Dane Strom

Photos of Mexico

Photos of Mexico. El Cohetero. Victor Rochin launches a rocket during the opening 2018 procession for Saint Andrew in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico. Andrew is the town's patron saint and he's honored every year at the end of November with a nine-day novenario that includes processions at dawn, noon and dusk each day.

USA / MÉXICO
Andrea Tejeda

"Orgullos Chilangos" for Chilango Magazine

This image is an outtake from the portrait series that I did for the cover and feature "Orgullos Chilangos" published in Chilango Magazine. Yalitza Aparicio, the leading actress of Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma", was selected as the person of the year and the portraits where shot in Oaxaca, her home state, a couple of months before the Academy Awards and Golden Globes nominations and awards.

MÉXICO
Daniela Unger

Hydra

¿Cuánto viven las casas? / How long do houses live?

¿Cuánto viven las casas? / How long do houses live? Mi hija y yo en nuestra casa en Concón, Chile. /My daughter and myself at our house in Concon, Chile. Llegamos en pleno invierno. Aislada y cobijando a mis dos hijos. El ruido de la tierra rompiéndose se ha quedado impreso en mi cuerpo. Cerca de lo vivo y de lo muerto, del aire, del agua, de las montañas y de la tierra. Chile, poderoso y salvaje, me cautivó y me asustó. We arrived in the middle of winter. Isolated sheltering my two children. The cracking sound of the earth remains imprinted in my body. Close to the living an the dead, to air, water, mountains, and to the ground. Chile, powerful and wild, captivated me and scared me.

MÉXICO / CHILE / LOS DIEZ
Eva Marie Uzcátegui

Flying man in a summer afternoon

Flying man in a summer afternoon. A man jumps to the sea from a pier in South Pointe, Miami.

VENEZUELA / USA / LOS DIEZ
Santiago Vanegas

Since 2001, I’ve had a good life in this country. Now, this once promising land is virtually unrecognizable to me. In this project, places, things, people we have taken for granted, now removed by razor’s edge. A familiar place, now unfamiliar and haunted by what once was and has become.

COLOMBIA
Santiago Vanegas

Since 2001, I’ve had a good life in this country. Now, this once promising land is virtually unrecognizable to me. In this project, places, things, people we have taken for granted, now removed by razor’s edge. A familiar place, now unfamiliar and haunted by what once was and has become.

COLOMBIA
Juan José Vela

Devil

Devil. Monterrey, MX. This is a project about masculinities in Mexico. In this piece I expolore the devil representation. Someone who is betrayed by his partner, also grows horns. The ability to cause damage is not one of the best features of human condition. Satanization of the other leads to ignorance.

MÉXICO
Louis Vest

Cartagena es donde nació mi esposa y donde he pasado muchos años felices. Quiero nada mas que celebrar la ciudad y su gente con me fotos.

USA / COLOMBIA
Alejandra Villa

Newsday

Havana at night

Havana at night. Series of street photos in Havana, Cuba. Newsday

USA
Fernando Villela

Houston and Bowery

Houston and Bowery. A photograph taken of a passerby on the Bowery, in New York.

BRAZIL / USA
Karen Zusman

Karen Zusman

Amado será el que ama

Amado será el que ama. Ariana y Rosaria de Trinidad, Cuba. The title of my ongoing, candid portrait project is from a line by Cuban poet, José Martí. With this work, I hope to show a more intimate, thoughtful portrayal of Cubans throughout the island who’ve been compelled to walk a tight rope—navigating the space between resignation and hope.

USA / LOS DIEZ