My great-grandmother’s dangerous journey

 Karina Aguilera Skvirsky was born in the United States but is also Ecuadorian. All her life she lived in that ambiguous space: neither totally black nor totally white. Latina in her native country, gringa in the country of her great-grandparents, thousands of...

A racist insult on my family album

Photographer Angélica Dass was born in Brazil, the last country in the world to formally abolish slavery. From a young age she was exposed to racism in different ways. In 280 chibatadas –in english: whiplashes– she brought that vital experience to the field of...

Carnival and photo: we are behind the mask

 In Veracruz there is a town famous for its carnival. It is called Coyolillo and it is one of the few communities from Veracruz that can be considered Afromestizo. They say that the tradition began because the town is close to the San Miguel de Almolonga sugar...