fototazo: Photography in Latin America 2012

I am excited to have co-curated F-Stop Magazine #54: The Latin America Issue - published today - in collaboration with F-Stop editor Christy Karpinski. We worked through a large submission pool over the past two weeks to select 353 images to feature.

Of those images, I have selected 100 to show here on fototazo over 5 posts.

I am setting it up this way for a couple reasons. The layout of this site would make republishing the entire selection featured on F-Stop difficult, plus duplicating the entirety of the images featured a click away doesn't seem necessary.

In exchange, pulling out 100 of the 353 accepted submissions gave me a chance to continue to enjoy looking through the images and to challenge myself as an editor to make decisions to get to what I truly feel are the strongest photographs submitted. I did not limit the number of images for any particular photographer - if someone happened to have made 5 of the best 100, so be it.

I am including 2012 in the post title because I would like this to be an annual feature on this site. fototazo is based in Colombia, and I have become aware since moving here of the lack of deserved presence of Latin American photography in the international online photography world. I would like this site to continue to move towards helping to fill that absence. There is a lot of exciting work being produced here - it just needs distribution.

One last note: the 100 images are not in any particular order other than a little intuitive sequencing.

Here are the first 20 images of Photography in Latin America 2012.

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