Wall text: My Kingdom for a Stage
Argentina/Irina Werning
http://irinawerning.com/
Carol 1960 & 2011 New York
“I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… Two years ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.”
Brazil/Mostra Tua Capa
https://instagram.com/brasilmostratuacapa/
The Brazilian duo known as Mostra Tua Capa takes a pop culture approach to reinterpreting vintage Brazilian album covers for their popular instagram feed, BrasilMostraTuaCapa.
Chile/Rodrigo Valenzuela
http://www.rodrigovalenzuela.com/
Still Life No. 4, 2014
“ I construct narratives, scenes, and stories which point to the tensions found between the individual and communities. I utilize autobiographical threads to inform larger universal fields of experience. Gestures of alienation and displacement are both the aesthetic and subject of much of my work. Often using landscapes and tableaus with day laborers or myself, I explore the way an image is inhabited, and the way that spaces, objects and people are translated into images. My work serves as an expressive and intimate point of contact between the broader realms of subjectivity and political contingency. Through my videos and photographs, I make images that feel at the same time familiar yet distant. I engage the viewer in questions concerning the ways in which the formation and experience of each work is situated—how they exist in and out of place.”
Colombia/Adriana Duque
http://www.adrianaduque.com
Maria 25
The children photographed by Adriana Duque are characters from a theatre scene, a quasi-painting, challenging the common notion of photography as an unquestionable document. The scenarios are constructed, the light calculated, the clothes made especially for the photo, and the children's blue eyes are added in digital post-production.
Costa Rica/Eloy Mora
https://www.facebook.com/La-fotograf%C3%ADa-de-Eloy-Mora-160251497466152/
Navidad
The photography of Eloy Mora employs the style of magical realism so noted in Latin American cinema.
Ecuador/Paola Paredes
www.unveiledtheproject.com
My sisters, tissues to their eyes, were also overcome with emotion; they couldn’t believe what had just transpired either.
Ecuadorean photographer Paola Paredes used three cameras to record the moment when she told her parents she was gay:
‘I’m gay.’
How long the words hung there in the silence I couldn’t tell you, but I knew I couldn’t just leave them hanging there, so at some point I carried on explaining, trying to show my parents that there was much more to this revelation than just my sexuality.
My parents didn’t react immediately, but I could feel their eyes on me. I took a deep breath and I forced myself to look at them. There was stillness in their eyes. I could no longer hold back the tears. I could no longer hear the shutters. I could no longer hear the music. Everything was blurry. Everything was tears.
And then, through the blur, voices reached out to me.
‘We don’t care.’
‘We love you.’
El Salvador/Fred Ramos
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/people/fred-ramos
The Last Outfit of the Missing
Gang violence is rife in El Salvador, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world. According to Salvadoran photographer Fred Ramos, about 1,500 people have been reported missing in the last year alone.
This was the impetus for Ramos’s harrowing series “The Last Outfit of the Missing,” which displays clothes that have been dug up from anonymous graves, on a white background. Often this clothing is the last trace or clue as to who these desaparecidos may have been
Espana/Garcia de Marina
http://www.garciademarina.net/
Ballerina
Garcia de Marina is a poet of the mundane, aiming to transform and bring new identities to objects. Employing a minimalism vision, Garcia de Marina, does not work with photo manipulation, but transforms objects by placing them in new scenarios or contexts.
Guatemala/Mario Santizo
http://mariosantizo.com/
El Entierro
Mario Santizo is a Guatemalan born and based photographic and video artist whose work plays with religious iconography and dystopic visions.
Honduras/Hector Rene
http://iamhectorrene.com/
The Creation of US, C. 2015
Hector Rene Membreno-Canales was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. After serving in Iraq Hector used the G.I. Bill to move to New York City and study photography at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). While at SVA Hector interned at the Museum of Modern Art, Magnum Foundation, Hank Willis Thomas Studio and Stephen Mallon Films. He was later invited to study Journalism at the Dept. of Defense Information School, Fort Meade, Md. Hector's work has been featured in The New York Times, L’Oeil de la Photographie, CNN and The Ottowa Citizen. Hector is currently an MFA candidate in the Dept. of Art and Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Mexico/Dulce Pinzon
http://www.dulcepinzon.com/
Global Warming
“By using out-of-this-time and out-of-context elements I intended to obtained metaphorical images to sensitize the audience about caring for the planet and reflecting on the world that we shall leave behind to future generations. Through the conventions of staged photography I aim to present a series of images based on the life cycle. These images also touch on issues that affect our environment with the hope of raising questions regarding the state of the planet we inhabit. My approach to this new series references environmental issues and concerns I had from an early age. “
Paraguay/Norberto Duarte
http://www.gettyimages.com/galleries/photographers/norberto_duarte
Re-enactment of the Last Supper
Norberto Duarte is a Paraguayan photojournalist.
Peru/Rafael Soldi
http://www.rafaelsoldi.com/
Untitled
“These images are an emotional exorcism of sorts, they represent my struggle to reconstruct a life without the very thing that I thought defined it. Before my relationship ended suddenly, it had become a catalyst for accessing a new way of making photographs, helping me define my own identity as a man. The breakup brought dramatic change to my work and I tapped into feelings that I never knew existed within me: panic, regret, fear and loss. This work chronicles the loss of the man I loved, and the importance of that relationship in defining my identity.”
Portugal/Miguel Provence
Miguelproenca.net
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In the Northwestern villages of Portugal and in some Spanish border villages it was common for young men to dress as demons during winter solstice celebrations, the gaudy and fringed costumes complete with large bells attached to the waist are used to ward off evil spirits and to 'bless' the plantation fields, hoping good harvests for the upcoming year. The scary masks are made of wood by local artisans and allow hidden faces do mischief. This tradition is threatened by oblivion due to the
de-population of the village. Here, a village youth recreates this tradition for Portuguese photographer Miguel Proenca.
Uruguay/Roberto Fernandez
www.robertofernandez.com.uy
Autocorte
Roberto G. Fernández Ibáñez was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1955. He studied Chemistry and he is self-taught in Photography. He is interested in the frontier between the real and the imaginary, mythology, symbolism, the metaphor as an expressive tool, the human behavior and the search for transcendence.
To quest, to investigate, to answer: these are his aims and leitmotivs.
Dominican Republic/Fausto Ortiz
I can’t find anything about this guy on the Internet, could the DR help with the text?
Venezuela/ Francisco Elías Prada
http://franciscoeliasprada.blogspot.com/
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Francisco Elias Prada is a photographer who as a young person with his family left city life to go live with the indigenous people of the Alto Apure amongst the Pume, and later, in the Upper Guajira, with the Wayu of Venezuela. As a young adult he escaped from prison after being charged for subversion. All of these experiences, combined with his yearning for change, fed his creative passions in capturing human expression, especially those who live on the fringe of society like the indigenous cultures.