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| From the series "Eden" © Alicia Vera |
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 is the last of the 50 posts in the series.
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
Mara Sánchez Renero. Her biography follows her 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 Mara Sánchez Renero. Encontrará su biografía al final del texto, así como una lista de colaboradores anteriores de la serie.
al final del texto, así como una lista de colaboradores anteriores de la serie.
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Liz Tasa
Perú
Holograms that accompany the project can be found
here
Liz Tasa's project "
Sublime Effroi" captivated me with just a photograph; the face of a wolf outlined with light in the top of a tree in the twilight of the night. Just seeing that image automatically transported me to a mythical imagination. I had not seen this series before and that quickly connected me to a place that is far from mundane. It is a project that pulsates.
In this project Liz manages to transport us the portrayal of place, light and characters to a sensory channel that makes us tense, taking us on a journey that takes us deep into the mountains where myths and legends live. Perhaps it brings us so close that it makes us experience the fear that we feel when walking in the darkness through the type of place that we perceive as cold, where the lights are harsh as if they emanated from mysterious beings and we can actually feel the roar of the beasts that haunt the darkness. The project continually crosses the threshold of what is fantasy and what is reality and creates, from the images, a timeless setting where we can recreate the mysteries of our collective imagination.
El proyecto de Liz Tasa "Sublime Effroi" me cautivó con una fotografía; la cara de un lobo delineada con luz en la copa de un árbol bajo la penumbra de la noche. Sólo ver esa imagen me transportó automáticamente a un estado del imaginario mítico. No había visto esta serie antes y así de rápido me conectó con un lugar que está muy alejado de lo mundano. Es un proyecto que se palpita.
En este proyecto Liz logra transportarnos a través del territorio, la luz y los personajes a un canal sensorial que nos tensa, llevándonos por un recorrido que nos adentra al interior de las montañas donde los mitos y leyendas habitan. Quizá nos acerca tanto que nos hace experimentar el miedo que podemos sentir al caminar en la oscuridad de esa geografía que se percibe fría, donde las luces se muestran estridentes como si emanaran de seres misteriosos y el estruendo que podemos llegar a sentir al cruzarnos con las fieras que rondan las tinieblas. El proyecto cruza continuamente el umbral de lo que es fantasía y lo que es realidad y crea, a partir de las imágenes, un escenario atemporal en donde podemos recrear los misterios de nuestro imaginario colectivo.
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| From the series "Sublime Effroi" © Liz Tasa |
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| From the series "Sublime Effroi" © Liz Tasa |
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| From the series "Sublime Effroi" © Liz Tasa |
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| From the series "Sublime Effroi" © Liz Tasa |
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| From the series "Sublime Effroi" © Liz Tasa |
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Alicia Vera
USA – México
Alicia Vera's last two bodies of work are located within the context of women engaged in sexual service. These two projects, which have an organic transition between one and the other, are presented as a window into the intimacy of these women, where we, the spectators, observe them behind the scenes, but we feel close to them thanks to the human and sensitive gaze that Alicia photographs with.
Looking at the trajectory of her work, I applaud the jump that the photographer makes between the "
Stripped" project where, from a more distant perspective, she lets us see the daily life of the dancers in a striptease club in San Francisco, to the closeness that she has in her project "
Eden" in which she acts on the impulse to approach her subject and delve into the life of a woman who teaches us openly and honestly, and whom Vera has documented for seven years as her subject went from being a stripper to becoming a full-service sex worker.
Los últimos dos trabajos de Alicia Vera se ubican en el contexto de las mujeres que se dedican al servicio sexual. Estos dos proyectos, que tienen una transición orgánica entre uno y otro, se presentan como una ventana a la intimidad de estas mujeres, donde nosotros los espectadores, las observamos detrás de bambalinas, mas nos sentimos cerca gracias a la mirada humana y sensible con la que fotografía Alicia.
Mirando la trayectoria, celebro el salto que da la fotógrafa entre el proyecto "Stripped" donde desde un lugar más alejado, nos deja ver la cotidianeidad de las bailarinas en un Club de Striptease de San Francisco, a la cercanía que tiene en su proyecto "Eden" donde toma impulso para acercase y adentrarse en la vida de una mujer que nos enseña de frente, a la que ha documentado desde hace 7 años y que transitó de ser stripper a convertirse en trabajadora sexual de servicio completo.
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| From the series "Eden" © Alicia Vera |
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| From the series "Eden" © Alicia Vera |
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| From the series "Eden" © Alicia Vera |
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| From the series "Eden" © Alicia Vera |
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| From the series "Stripped" © Alicia Vera |
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| From the series "Stripped" © Alicia Vera |
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| From the series "Stripped" © Alicia Vera |
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| From the series "Stripped" © Alicia Vera |
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| From the series "Stripped" © Alicia Vera |
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Mara Sánchez Renero (Mexico 1979) studied photography in Barcelona, Spain, where she lived for ten years. She was part of the boom in collectives in 2008 in Spain, where she was co-founder of the Malocchio group and PHACTO.
In her work she is interested in finding places where she can create a stage to explore the instability of the human condition. In her photographs we can witness the dissolution of the identity constructed by men and women by isolating them from their daily contexts and showing them instead in the space of their imagination, exploring their mythical side and in this way face the uncertainty of the nature of the human being.
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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,
Isadora Romero,
Álvaro Laiz,
Charlotte Schmitz and
Gael Almeida.
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, Isadora Romero, Álvaro Laiz, Charlotte Schmitz y Gael Almeida.
