By Verónica Sanchis, translated by Ellen Donnison Antonio Briceño was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Central University of Venezuela) with a degree in biology and is currently studying for his masters in Digital Arts at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Briceño has exhibited his work in numerous […]

By Carlos Fonseca, translated by Ellen Donnison At the age of twenty in a foolish and juvenile fit of rage, I promised myself I would never read Shakespeare. The canon overwhelmed me and I found it sterile and hardly productive that the academy taught this English writer. I had reached my twenties without reading his […]

By Verónica Sanchis, translated by Ellen Donnison   Album Erotico II – Wild Palms Dance. ©Karen Paulina Biswell Karen Paulina Biswell was born in Aruba in 1983 and grew up in both Colombia and France. From a certain perspective her work can be considered documentary. However, Biswell never started out with the intention of exposing […]

Translation by Ellen Donnison Misha Vallejo was born in 1985 in Riobamba, Ecuador. In 2014 he completed his Masters in Documentary Photography at the University of Arts in London. In 2010 he finished his work at the Faculty of Photojournalism at Saint Petersburg, Russia. Since then he has worked as an independent photographer and in […]

Translation by Ellen Donnison Cristóbal and Alejandro Olivares are Chilean photographers, both of whom founded the independent editorial initiative, Buen Lugar Ediciones, which prints photographic books in Chile. Buen Lugar Ediciones was set up in Santiago de Chile in January 2014. Its first publication was entitled, Living Periferia, and was filled with work by Alejandro […]

Por Ellen Donnison Recientemente, Ventana Latina tuvo el placer de entrevistar a Cesar Gustavo Iriarte, estudiante de la Universidad de Sussex. Actualmente, Cesar estudia un doctorado en Economía y realiza una investigación sobre México y su economía laboral. Cesar es el vice presidente de MEXSAS (Estudiantes Mexicanos y Latín Americanos en Sussex) la cual es […]

By Ellen Donnison This month Ventana Latina had the pleasure of interviewing Cesar Gustavo Iriate, a student at the University of Sussex. Cesar is currently undertaking a doctorate in in economics and his research is geared towards Mexico and its economic labour. Cesar is also the vice-president of MEXAS (Mexican and Latin American Students at […]

By Marilyne Buda Translated by Ellen Donnison Photos copyright Lempicka Brian  From the meeting of Müller and Makaroff, the two founders of the Gotan Project, and Catherine Ringer, the voice of legendary French band, Les Rita Mitsouko, Plaza Francia was born. This unexpected and avant-garde collaboration is another renewal of the vision of tango, uniting […]

By Verónica Sanchis Translated by Ellen Donnison Waska Tatay is a project created by Raphaël Verona and Thomas Rousset. In this photographic project Verona and Rousset document a trip through the Bolivian high plateaus and explore this region’s magical beliefs, which are tinged with poetry and humour. This region can be strange and marvellous and […]

By Verónica Sanchis Translated by Ellen Donnison   Federico Estol was born in Uruguay in 1981. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Cataluña in Barcelona and specialises in work based in the countryside and rural areas. He currently works on social projects for El Programa Uruguay Integra and as a freelance photojournalist for local […]

By Marilyne Buda Translated by Ellen Donnison The French publishing house L’Harmattan recently published Une Mythologie Brésilienne (A Brazilian Mythology), a study of popular religiosity in northeast Brazil based on oral literature and the history of the saints. The author, José Maria Tavares de Andrade, is a Brazilian anthropologist who divides his time between his […]

By Verónica Sanchis Translated by Ellen Donnison This October we had the fortune to interview Ecuadorian photographer Karla Gachet. She became the first woman to join the staff of graphic journalists at the newspaper Diario El Comercio. She is represented by the London based agency Panos Pictures and has had work featured in publications such […]