Foto 30: Celebrating Guatemalan Photography
On behalf of ArteAntigua, we’re excited to be launching La Antigua Guatemala’s first ever comprehensive web portal for the Antigua Guatemala art scene. Yet, admittedly, we could have had better timing. Our inaugural post comes just as Guatemala’s annual celebration of photography, Foto 30: Thirty Days of Photography in Guatemala, is wrapping up.
Would have. Should have. Could have. I’m simply going to go with the tried and true: Better late than never!
Fortunately, there is still an exciting array of Foto 30 events scheduled for this last week of September and the beginning of October. The activities are scattered around both La Antigua and Guatemala City.
Thursday, September 24:
Guarda-Espaldas
Luis González Palma
Sol del Río Arte Contemporánea
14 av. 15-56 zona 10
The figure of the bodyguards respond to the masculine archetype: to break away from this stereotype, the artist reflects over the exercise of power and the determined social status of the hierarchies and cultural structures…
American Exurbia
Rachelle Mozman
Sol del Río Arte Contemporánea
14 av. 15-56 zona 10
Through the portrait collection of children whose individuality confronts the limitations of their respective and transformed culture, Mozman presents before the public interrogations over the created identity and the social changes that are derived from globalization.
URS. DRANCY. BOBIGNY STATION. AUSCHWITZ. BIRKENAU. CHELMO-KULMHOF. MAJDANECK.
Estephane Garin y Sylvestre Gobart
Sol del Río Arte Contemporánea
14 av. 15-56 zona 10
This project reevaluates the vision of the concentration camps and other places linked to the Holocaust. The images and the sounds that shape this exhibition make a reference to the non-places of the memory, thus undoing the traditional images associated with extermination executed by Nazism.
Saturday, September 26:
Laberinto de Miradas 3
Colectivos fotográficos en Iberoamérica
Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española/ Espacioce!
6 av. Norte entre 3 y 4 calle Antigua Guatemala
Photography associations do not only respond to formal theories or ideologies but also to the practical. Professionals are forced to find new methods that give visibility to their work. In this way, the collectives perform much like agencies (or image banks): as a common platform before a difficult market, or as a method of joint creation.
In “Laberinto de Miradas 3 Colectivos fotográficos en Iberoamérica”, the curator Claudí Carreras presents an unorthodox tour around the working collective, a selection of the most significant groups of the Iberamerican panorama, which works specifically within spheres of social action…
Workshop: Images of a Country
Hosted by Iván Castro
Proyecto Cultural El Sitio
Hours: 9:00 to 12:00
Camera required
A theoretical-practical inspection of the elements of landscape, natural and architectural photography, with digital retouching techniques.
Children’s Workshop: Little Documentary
Hosted by Clara de Tezanos
Designed for children 11 and older, accompanied by a parent
An original form of understand the space by which we are surrounded and the importance of the daily landscape. Participants will work in pairs with photographs that deal with a social theme and participants will learn to edit and analyze proper material.
Monday, September 28 thru Friday, October 2:
Seminar/Workshop: The Digressive Landscape: visual representations, community strategies and visual contemporary culture
Hosted by Irving Domínguez
Centro Cultural de España
Hours: 9:00 to 12:00
The workshop is structured around the four exhibitions of landscape as it pertains to the point of intersection between the photography of the author and contemporary art. Each of the sessions will be interrelated with the rest and will implicate the revision of the very precise works of international artists with the end of opening the discussion over the sense of landscapes within our geo-cultural experiences, with relation to Western art.
Tuesday, September 29:
Panoramas
Colectiva
Arte La Fábrica
15 calle 7-41 zona 10
The theme revolves around the landscapes of Networks – human, celestial and terrestrial – incorporating photography printed using UV tints upon changing surfaces. The specialized panoramic photographs are displayed using Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) technology in the Projection Room under UV light.
Saturday, October 3:
Workshop: Between Photos and Paintings
Hosted by Flor de María Colorado Comparini
A guided visit of the exhibition, explaining the different approaches that photography offers to reality and the importance of expression through photography. Afterward, children are invited to make a composition using photography and paint.
Monday, October 5 thru Wednesday October 7:
Workshop: A Collective Count
Hosted by Cia de Foto
To reflect over photography that is so interesting to photograph. The proposal of the course is to do a collective piece through the collection of images that allow the construction of a rehearsal. It will deepen the investigation of a photographic idea from the moment of creation to its realization, edition and exhibition. This is a three-day workshop.
The Casa del Mango also has its own excitement scheduled for 8:00pm Friday, September 25, in light of Foto 30 celebrations. The art hangout is hosting a “chat” with photographer Anna Soler as part of its “Contacts: stamps of a trip between two seas.” Attendees will be able to view Soler’s work, ask her questions and offer comments.
Enthusiasts will also be able to enjoy Bill Ipsan’s exhibition of “Paisajes Urbanos” at 8:00 on Saturday, September 26 in Paseo de los Museos, Casa Santo Domingo.
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