by Vani | Feb 2, 2021 | Interviews, Vist Projects
In September 2017, Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico. It is estimated that three thousand people died. It was the worst natural disaster registered on those islands plus the subsequent laziness of the authorities dealing with the catastrophe. The father of the...
by Vani | Feb 1, 2021 | Interviews, Vist Projects
Diego Mondaca remembers the familiar meetings when he was a child, in the 80’s. He remembers, punctually, that in a determined moment the males of the family stood aside and always (always) began to talk about the Chaco War that faced Bolivia and Paraguay between 1932...
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 admin_vist | Jan 31, 2021 | Interviews, Vist Projects
They invited Luis Enrique Aguilar to photograph the feast of Santa Magdalena in Aldama, Mexico. There were rumors of conflicts, however, that time everything went well, even those from the town of San Andrés took their saint to greet their neighbors in Aldama. They...
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 | 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...