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...
by Vani | Jun 23, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
When Victoria Santa Cruz was five years old, she was the only black girl at her neighborhood in Lima. Her friends were mestizo and she did not know that the differences between them were much more than chromatic. Until one day a white family moved next to her home....
by Vani | Jun 23, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
In Haiti, the word noctambule speaks of a night inhabitant of clandestine activities. Pursuing that idea, the photographer Josué Azor goes through the queer night of Port-au-Prince and portrays it with the naturalness of the initiate. “The more photographs I...
by admin_vist | Jun 22, 2020 | Vist Projects, Visualities
In the middle of a ceremony in Haiti, photographers Cristina de Middel and Bruno Morais saw a hen walking along a stone wall. They did not imagine it, nobody told them. They were at one more stop on their journey between Africa and America to rebuild the routes...