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fototazo has asked a group of 50 curators, gallery owners, blog writers, photographers, academics and others actively engaged with Latin American photography to pick two photographers whose work deserves recognition.
This project aims to highlight great work being made in the region today and also to provide a starting point in both English and Spanish for exploring contemporary Latin American photography. LatAm f100 is a collaboration between fototazo and the photographer and educator
Jaime Permuth.
Today we continue the series with selections by
Álvaro Laiz. His biography follows his selections as well as a list of previous contributors to the series.
fototazo ha invitado a un grupo de 50 curadores, galeristas, escritores, fotógrafos, y académicos - entre otros individuos seriamente comprometidos con la fotografía latinoamericana - a escoger cada quién dos fotógrafos cuya obra sea merecedora de mayor reconocimiento.
Este proyecto es una manera de celebrar el gran trabajo que se lleva a cabo en la región. Asimismo, busca proporcionar un punto de partida bilingüe en inglés y en español a las audiencias que deseen explorar la fotografía contemporánea en Latinoamérica. LatAm f100 es una colaboración entre fototazo y el fotógrafo y educador Jaime Permuth.
Hoy continuamos la serie con selecciones aportadas por Álvaro Laiz. Encontrará su biografía al final del texto, así como una lista de colaboradores anteriores de la serie.
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Long Live the Sun King
P’unchaw, Víctor Zea's first photobook, is much more than a street photo book. It is a song to his adopted city, Cusco. Using a concept as old as it is attractive (all light casts a shadow), Victor weaves a magnificent and delicate piece of visual metalwork. Cuzco is revealed as El Dorado, where the gold the Spanish were looking for shines on every page of the book and then disappears as if it had never been there.
P'unchaw is a true compliment to the Quechua culture, to Cusco, but above all it is a Praise of the Shadow: Long live the Sun and Long Live its Shadow ...
Larga vida al Rey Sol
P’unchaw,
el primer fotolibro de Víctor Zea es mucho más que un libro de street photo. Es un canto a su ciudad adoptado, Cusco. Sobre un concepto tan antiguo como atractivo (toda luz arroja una sombra) Víctor urde una magnífica y delicada pieza de orfebrería visual. Cuzco se revela como El Dorado, donde el oro que buscaban los españoles brilla en cada página del libro para desaparecer a continuación como si nunca hubiera estado allí. P´unchaw
es un auténtico elogio a la cultura Quechua, a Cusco, pero sobre todo es un Elogio de la Sombra; Larga vida al Sol y Larga Vida a su Sombra…
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Álvaro Laiz (b.1981) is a Spanish photographer and artist whose work deals with narratives where traditional culture, nature and industrial development converge. In 2017 he published his first book
The Hunt (Dewi Lewis/RM, 2017), a reconstruction of a Moby-Dick-like story of man against nature's most fearsome and efficient predator in the Boreal Jungle: the Siberian tiger. It was presented at Les Rencontres d'Arles 2017 and
selected by the British Journal of Photography as Best of 2017. Álvaro´s work has been recognized by a number of institutions including Sony World Photography Awards, World Press Photo, Magnum and Ideas Tap Foundation Visura and Center Santa Fe. He is also the recipient of the 2016 National Geographic Explorer's Grant for his ongoing project "The Edge," a journey following the steps of the paleo-Siberian populations through the Bering Strait Bridge 20,000 years ago to become the first settlers in America.
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This series also includes responses from
Molly Roberts,
Mariela Sancari,
Alonso Castillo,
Paccarik Orue,
Katrin Eismann,
Dina Mitrani,
Don Gregorio Anton,
Cristina De Middel, Arturo Soto,
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill,
Guillermo Srodek-Hart,
Yorgos Efthymiadis,
Livia Animas,
Juanita Bermúdez,
Susana Raab, the pairing of
Victoria Holguín and Daniella Benedetti,
Emiliano Valdés,
Muriel Hasbun,
George Slade,
Marta Dahó,
Elizabeth Avedon,
Jorge Piccini,
Rodrigo Orrantia,
Sujong Song,
Nelson Herrera Ysla,
Oliva María Rubio,
Jonathan Blaustein,
Patricia Martin,
José Luis Cuevas,
Zully Sotelo,
Alfredo De Stefano Farías,
Gonzalo Golpe,
Julián Barón,
James Rodríguez,
Misha Vallejo,
Musuk Nolte,
Cintia Durán,
Alasdair Foster,
Eder Chiodetto,
Erik van der Weijde,
Stella Johnson,
Efrem Zelony-Mindell,
Joana Toro,
Jon F. Espitia,
Sofia Ayarzagoitia and
Isadora Romero.
La serie también incluye contribuciones de Molly Roberts, Mariela Sancari, Alonso Castillo, Paccarik Orue, Katrin Eismann, Dina Mitrani, Don Gregorio Anton, Cristina De Middel, Arturo Soto, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Livia Animas, Juanita Bermúdez, Susana Raab, el dúo de Victoria Holguín and Daniella Benedetti, Emiliano Valdés, Muriel Hasbun, George Slade, Marta Dahó, Elizabeth Avedon, Jorge Piccini, Rodrigo Orrantia, Sujong Song y Nelson Herrera Ysla, Oliva María Rubio, Jonathan Blaustein, Patricia Martin, José Luis Cuevas, Zully Sotelo,
Alfredo De Stefano Farías, Gonzalo Golpe, Julián Barón, James Rodríguez, Musuk Nolte, Cintia Durán, Alasdair Foster, Eder Chiodetto, Erik van der Weijde, Stella Johnson, Efrem Zelony-Mindell, Joana Toro, Jon F. Espitia, Sofia Ayarzagoitia e
Isadora Romero.
