Indigenous rebels, migrant bravery and joyful dance: New York’s Latin American Foto Festival – in pictures
The Guardian has published a photo gallery showcasing work featured at New York's Latin American Foto Festival, hosted by the Bronx Documentary Center. The collection brings together documentary photographers from across Latin America, spotlighting Indigenous land movements, environmental struggles, migration and cultural traditions, and it matters as a platform amplifying regional stories of resilience, identity and community that are often underrepresented in mainstream visual media.
The featured projects span numerous countries and themes: Chris Perez's Dominican explores identity in rural Dominican Republic, while Cristian Ochoa and Laura Garcia document mining, water exploitation and lake restoration in Chile and Guatemala. Other works cover Indigenous rebellion, including Neusa Quadros's land-back movement in a São Paulo village now home to 14 families, and Matias Delacroix's images of Venezuelan migrants crossing the Darién Gap. Further projects address domestic abuse in Colombia's Emberá Dobida community, open-pit mining in Peru's Cerros de Pasco, the cumbia music tradition, the fading use of indigo dye in Peru, and one photographer's portrait of her mother before an Alzheimer's diagnosis.
- New York festival showcases documentary photography from across Latin America.
- Themes span Indigenous rights, migration, mining harm and cultural traditions.
- Photographers document resilience of communities facing environmental and social pressures.