Before the Quake: Chilean Photographer, Mauricio Vergara, Documents Life in Chile

Photographer: Mauricio Vergara Seguel ©
Email: mauriciovergara@vtr.net
Mauricio is a Chilean Freelance Photographer who documents life in Chile.  These photographs were taken in Santiago, Chile and Southern Chile before the earthquake.
Send Mauricio your comments using the comment box at the bottom of the page.

Chilean Photographer, Heia Kato Hits the Streets After Earthquake

Contact: Heia Kato ©
Email: haciaelinfinito@gmail.com
These photographs were taken in Santiago, Chile after the quake. Send Heia Kato your comments using the comment box at the bottom of the page.

Santiago, Chile After the Quake, Photographs by Chilean Photographer, Luis Hidalgo

Photographer: Luis Hidalgo ©
Email: luishidalgo91@gmail.com
Luis is a Chilean Freelance Photographer.  These images were taken in Santiago, Chile after the quake.
I last spoke to Luis before he headed out to Concepcion, Chile, where he plans to photograph the events unfolding in that region.
Send Luis your comments using the comment box at the bottom of the page.

Joel Meyerowitz, Award-Winning Photographer

“Legacy:  The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks”
Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He was born in New York in 1938. He began photographing in 1962. He is a “street photographer” in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and [...]

The Witness

“The Witness” Photo & Essay by Dora Leticia ©
The holidays have come and gone now, and, with them an onslaught of memories dating back to my childhood and early teens come knock some dust off the memory shutters just for kicks.
They are not memories of mistle toe and christmas carols that pay the visit.  [...]

About our Founder

Dora Leticia is an independent documentary photographer currently based in New York.
Photographing extensively in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile & Argentina, she captures the nostalgic colors that embrace what is human, creative, and dignified in our struggle.
Our struggle, to not only survive, but, rise above what falls deaf on many [...]

Susan Meiselas & Alfredo Jaar (In Conversation)

Susan Meiselas and Alfredo Jaar (In Conversation)
New York, New York
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555
Join Aperture for a special evening of conversation between photojournalist Susan Meiselas and artist Alfredo Jaar.
Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and is renowned for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua [...]

Camión de Carga / Cargo Truck

2006, Juan Sebastián Jácome
Short Film (9 Mins.)
Click here to see the short film in its entirety
Despite her own illness, a Central American single mother risks her life to give her son a better future in the United States.
“…powerful performance…it will leave you speechless… – SOLAS Latin American and Iberian Institute
About Juan Sebastián Jácome
Ecuadorian filmmaker Juan [...]

Brooklyn Museum Gilbert & George Exhibition and Artist’s Talk

Brooklyn Museum – Brooklyn, New York Gilbert & George Exhibition
On view: Friday, October 03, 2008 — Sunday, January 11, 2009
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, New York
(414) 224-3200
The Brooklyn Museum is the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of work by the internationally acclaimed [...]

Samantha Power Among Esquire’s Most Influential People of the 21st Century

Esquire Magazine named genocide scholar Samantha Power one of the most influential people of the 21st century – citing her critical involvement in the Save Darfur movement and a 2003 Pulitzer prize for her book A Problem from Hell.
What Norman Podhoretz is to the neocon movement Power is to this as-yet-unnamed force. (Neo-internationalism? Moral interventionism? [...]

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