by Vani | Jun 27, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
In 2017, Venezuelan photographer Fabiola Ferrero traveled to a small Colombian rural community to visit a peasant family dedicated to coca production. The Peace Agreement had been signed very recently, in Colombia the hectares of coca planting did not stop growing and...
by Vani | Jun 26, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
São Paulo is the city with the most cases of Covid-19 in Latin America. In Paraisópolis, one of its largest favelas, almost 150 thousand people live. “Paraisópolis is the strongest representation of what is happening in Brazil during the pandemic,” says...
by Vani | Jun 25, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
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...
by Vani | Jun 25, 2020 | Interviews, Vist Projects
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...
by Vani | Jun 24, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
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...