At the heart of the beast

Pablo Allison was studying a photography diploma in England when arose the possibility of taking photos at jail. Together with some colleagues, he headed for the prison. He took pictures trying not to miss that chance that he, he speculated, would hardly be repeated....

The ancestral avant-garde

Rember Yahuarcani López is from the deep Amazon. The life of the Huitoto artist takes place between Lima, the Peruvian capital, and Pebas, a town of no more than twenty thousand inhabitants that can only be accessed by boat. Rember paints and writes: “What my...

Love spells, potions of resistance

From a very young age, the artist Joyce Rivas expressed a fascination for drawing, painting and the arts in general. She studied at a nun’s college where there weren’t many options to explore those interests and where she was considered “very...

“Cholita you had to be”

Women who work the coca in Bolivia, a lot of times as a unique possibility of sustent, while outsiders stigmatize and the insiders do not let them take decisions. Women that widen the margins of the debate: they fight for the end of the genre violences and for taking...