by Vani | Jan 6, 2021 | Vist Projects, Visualities
Lorena Velasco remembered that her maternal grandparents had an orchard, that they braided her hair, but not much else. Actually, she hardly knew them when she decided to get close and take pictures of them. She did it in the middle of a family fight over an...
by Vani | Jan 6, 2021 | Interviews, Vist Projects
“At least you’re a fine black woman,” some people told Mayeli Villalba when she was a child. They told her with a certain sadness that she did not identify well where it came from. She only understood a little more when, years later, she met a group...
by Vani | Jan 6, 2021 | Interviews, Vist Projects
“I am an artisan of photography”, tells Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo. Every person who knows her work will agree with this definition. This does not imply that this Colombian-American photographer has given up technology and digital process. Instead, it suppose some...
by Vani | Jan 5, 2021 | Interviews, Vist Projects
When Susana Vargas went to meet Juana Barrasa, named by the press as Mataviejitas (the little old lady killer), she was surprised by the sweetness of her voice, the pretty smile with the small teeth and the electric blue eyeliner. Somehow she felt identified: she...
by Vani | Jan 5, 2021 | Vist Projects, Visualities
Zahara Gómez dreamed of being a “male photographer”. She says it herself, in masculine, on purpose. She imagined herself recording the war, bringing true to light, and changing the world with an image. But when she began taking photos, she realized that her way was...