by Vani | Feb 1, 2021 | Interviews, Vist Projects
“There are people who have the possibility to translate nature with their language. Not only with their customs and bodies but with their language, not only with the direct but with the metaphorical one”, says the photographer Erika Larsen. Tracing that connection is...
by Vani | Jan 25, 2021 | Vist Projects
The Mexican artist and engraver Orlando Velázquez seeks to portray the moment in which the bond that connected man with his habitat was broken. “The earth is the beginning and the end of all things,” he says wistfully. He regrets that, as a result of conflicts such as...
by Vani | Jan 25, 2021 | Vist Projects, Visualities
Hugo Arellanes was bothered by something every time anthropologists, photographers and filmmakers visited his native Costa Chica. For years he could not put in words what it was. Until he managed to see it from a distance, at the university. There he concludes:...
by Vani | Jan 12, 2021 | publication, Vist Projects
“On the afternoon of Monday, November 9, a coup d’état was consummated in Peru in the midst of the economic and health crisis”: this is how 11/20 begins, an urgent book. The prologue is written by the anthropologist Sandra Rodriguez who, together...
by Vani | Jan 12, 2021 | Vist Projects, Visualities
When photographer Gena Steffens speaks with some authority, she gets the feeling that they think she is “harmless.” And that opens doors. Thus, she managed, for example, to convince the Colombian military to fly with them in their anti-drug campaigns in...