Tamara Merino

 

Tamara Merino is an independent documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Chile focusing on social and cultural issues, identity and migration. She has projects on female migration in Chile, opal mining in Australia, LGBT community in Mexico and local communities in Brasil, among others. Her work has appeared in multiple online and print publications worldwide including National Geographic, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Wired, Fish Eye Magazine, Joia Magazine, Folha de Sao Paulo, Roads and Kingdoms and Sydney Morning Herald, among others.
Tamara was selected to participate in the 2015 World Press Photo Latin America Masterclass and her work is currently exhibited in Washington D.C. as part of the 2017 World Press Photo side exhibition. She was finalist for the Magnum Foundation’s and Inge Morath Award 2016 and her work is part of the Photographic Museum of Humanity PHMuseum. Tamara was awardee for the Foundry Photojournalism scholarship 2017, was selected to participate in the “FIFV” Internacional Festival of Photography in Valparaiso 2017 and was selected for the Portfolio Review of ERRANTE International Photography Festival 2017.
Tamara has a degree in photography at the Universidad del Pacífico of Santiago, Chile and a residency of photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is part of Women Photograph and Ladera Sur.

Camilo José Vergara

For more than four decades I have devoted myself to photographing and documenting the poorest and most segregated communities in urban America. I feel that a people’s past, including their accomplishments, aspirations and failures, are reflected less in the faces of those who live in these neighborhoods than in the material, built environment in which they move and modify over time. Photography for me is a tool for continuously asking questions, for understanding the spirit of a place, and, as I have discovered over time, for loving and appreciating cities.

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Edgard Garrido

The assignments that I like best are the intimate ones, the ones that touch your emotions and reveal people’s humanity.

Paz Errázuriz

 

Considerada una de las fotógrafas más destacadas de Chile, el trabajo de Paz Errázuriz tiene un especial compromiso con el retrato en blanco y negro, con el que explora diversos temas sociales, poniendo énfasis en los mundos y oficios más crudos de la sociedad chilena.

Tras estudiar Educación en el Cambridge Institute of Education (Inglaterra, 1966) y en la Universidad Católica de Chile (1972), empezó su formación como fotógrafa autodidacta, que perfeccionó en International Center of Photography de Nueva York en 1993. Desde entonces ha expuesto en Chile y el extranjero, y ha publicado diversos libros como El Infarto del Alma junto a Diamela Eltit, La Manzana de Adán junto a Claudia Donoso, Kawesqar: Hijos de la Mujer Sol, y una antología de su obra Paz Eráazuriz, fotografía 1982-2002. Asimismo, ha recibido el premio Ansel Adams (1995), otorgado por el Instituto Chileno Norteamericano de Cultura, el Premio a la Trayectoria Artística del Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile (2005) y el Premio Altazor (2005).

Marco Guerra

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Fruits of Wrath, Edgard Garrido

Fruit pickers in the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, railing against a life of grinding poverty, have blocked roads, staged marches and held meetings with lawmakers since March as frustration over working conditions boiled over. One labourer in San Quintin, south of the border town of Tijuana, sleeps with his family on the bare earth in a tiny wooden shack on scrubland. He said after picking between 242 lbs and 440 lbs of strawberries a day he earns from $56 to $79 a week. Strawberries fetched $2.36 a pound on average in the United States in 2013

Joyce Silberstein

Joyce Silberstein (°1989, Chile, Germany) creates mixed media works like: photography, graphic design, web design, direction in creative projects, individual and collective expositions and conceptual artworks. Starting with observations around her, a deep investigation and the best organization via retakes and variations, she realized that expression and creation comes in to society style life. This multidisciplinary artist plays with the idea of mixing the power of different tools that design has given: at first she study Desing with mention in Graphic Design in Santiago do Chile and all so has an MA of Photography and Design at ELISAVA, University Pompeu du Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. As well as start working since 19 years old as a graphic designer and photographer in different challenges constructs the reason of thinking that image can construct the scenery of peoples life in a good and creativity way.

Camilo José Vergara

Creo que lo más valioso de nuestra sociedad a menudo se deja de lado. Entiendo que se tiren zapatos o ropa vieja, pero el alcance de lo que abandona América: edificios, fábricas inmensas, barrios enteros, me hizo plantear el porqué a través de imágenes. En vez de buscar una explicación lógica, he intentado vivir la decadencia fotografiándola y hablando con los habitantes de los barrios afectados. Mis proyectos son una clasificación o una especie de taxonomía.

Yo soy un fotógrafo distinto a los otros, a mí me dan la medalla por la especialidad de humanidades, porque mi responsabilidad es fotografiar la historia de los barrios arruinados, que se están cayendo a pedazos, donde la inversión es cero y cuyos habitantes los están abandonando.

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Patagonia, Peter Essick

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