Book Launch

Book Launch
Disruption


Saturday

Jul 24, 2021 | 6pm

 

This event will be held in person. Mask will be required to attend.
BDC Annex, 364 E. 151st St, Bronx, NY 10455

Please join us for the launch of Disrupción, a fotozine created collaboratively by seven Méxican photographers; Luis Antonio Rojas, Felix Márquez, Yael Martínez, Koral Carballo, Mauricio Palos, Selene Ugalde, Omar Martínez, and journalist Stephania Corpi. 

This work addresses the challenges around distance learning that children around México experienced during the pandemic. For this assignment, each photographer approached a student in their hometown to document the changes and processes they went through to adapt to distance learning schooling. The subjects ranged from an 11-year-old who lives in a home without electricity in Veracruz to a 7-year-old in Mexico City’s upscale Polanco neighborhood. 

This work was published by "Sin Resentimientos". Purchase a copy here

Masks will be required to attend this indoor event. 


   

 

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Stephania Corpi (b. San Luis Potosí in 1984 ) is a journalist based in Mexico City who focuses on migration, human rights, gender equality and other under-reported issues. Her freelance work for the past seven years has led her to photograph and report from Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and throughout Central America for outlets such as El Pais, Thomson Reuters Foundation, WPR, the Guardian, Vogue Latin America, and Esquire, among others. 

Félix Márquez (b. Veracruz, Mexico in 1988) is an independent photographer and visual journalist based in Mexico. He has specialized in covering the war against drug trafficking in Mexico, migration, human rights, and childhood in Latin America. He is a co-founder of Trasluz Photo and producer of Mirar Distinto festival.  

Luis Antonio Rojas (b. Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1993) is a Mexican photojournalist and documentalist based in Mexico City. He is a National Geographic Explorer who divides his time working on independent projects and collaborating with international newspapers around the country such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, among others.
 
Koral Carballo ( b. Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico in 1987) tells stories related to identity, violence, and territory; dissolving frontiers between photojournalism and visual arts. Collaborates with the Ruda Collective. She also belongs to the following organizations; Foto Féminas, Fotógrafas en México, Frontline Freelance Mexico, Diversify Photo, and Women Photograph.
 
Mauricio Palos (b. San Luis Potosí, Mexico in 1981) Documentalist and cultural promoter, works mainly in North and South America. Normally he is producing projects of personal initiative that are published as zines, newspapers, and photographic books, he is also constantly experimenting with his audiovisual production.
 
Omar Matinez (b. Tijuana, Mexico in 1980) is a photojournalist specializing in documenting migration along the northern border of the country. He has participated in more than 20 exhibitions and his work is part of the permanent collection of the Athenaeum Museum in California. He is currently a staff of the Cuartoscuro Agency in Tijuana. 
 
Yael Martínez (b. Guerrero, México in 1984) is trying to represent the relationship of absence and presence and this state of invisibility in a symbolic manner working with the concepts of pain, emptiness, absence, and forgetting. He is a Magnum Agency nominee. 

Andrea Selene (b. in San Salvador, El Salvador in 1993) is a visual storyteller that explores migration issues from personal experience, transnationalism, and intra-family violence. She received recognition for the best portfolio in the portfolio review carried out during the international festival "Mirar Distinto” in Xalapa, Veracruz, México (2018) with the project “There is no place that feels home” and was recently awarded a grant by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes in Mexico.

IMAGE: Kevin Zamudio, 11 años, nada en la Laguna de Alvarado frente a la comunidad de El Nacaste. Kevin y Brian han sido unos de los estudiantes afectados por la pandemia del Covid-19 al vivir en una comunidad sin energía eléctrica ni internet para poder realizar sus actividades académicas. © Félix Márquez