"Ancestralidad, Pisaq, Valle Sagrado."

"The third photograph, in black and white, is taken from my series Días Tras Días. Conceived as a visual travel diary, the project develops a subjective photographic language informed by the legacy of documentary photography. The series brings together black-and-white and color analog photographs gathered day after day, on the margins of spectacular events, with sustained attention to the fragments and subtle details of everyday life."

"Better call an Elephant, Dias Tras Dias , Lima, Perú."

Thibault Belouis

Born in 1992, French photographer and art director Thibault Belouis has developed a visual language at the intersection of the travel diary, territorial exploration, and poetic documentary. Trained in graphic design at Penninghen in Paris, he first immersed himself in 
image culture as an iconographer before devoting his practice to fieldwork and immersion. 
 
His work explores the intimate relationship between memory, environment, and human traces. Through long-term journeys, notably his emblematic body of work Días Tras Días, created across the American continent, Thibault Belouis captures the sensitive dimension of both built and natural landscapes. His compositions pay particular attention to suspended atmospheres, portraying the architecture of places and everyday life with a raw and unembellished authenticity.

"Through analog photography, I explore the porous boundary between reality and imagination. For several years, I have been interested in how perception constructs 
narratives and how images reveal spaces of ambiguity, illusion, and poetic displacement. I develop a body of work in which borders - whether literal or symbolic - open onto worlds where the real and the surreal become almost indistinguishable."

"Los Barriletes, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala."

"With each project, I take the time to wander through new territories: streets, village squares, cemeteries, landscapes, and everyday scenes. I observe moments of life, both ordinary and extraordinary, allowing them to inform my practice. The observation of subtle, often overlooked events lies at the heart of my visual approach. I am particularly drawn to landscapes, geometric forms, architecture, and the people who inhabit these spaces. Through my images, I seek to reveal both the banality and the dreamlike strangeness of certain places, as well as the nearly invisible details that become narrative thresholds."

"Celles et Ceux, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala."

Eduardo López Moreno is a Mexican photographer whose work explores the relationship between people, place, memory, inequality, and everyday life. After decades of working internationally on cities and human settlements, photography became another way of observing the social world - slower, more intimate, and often closer to the gestures that formal narratives overlook. 
 
His photographic practice has developed across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, with particular attention to communities, streets, domestic spaces, work, migration, identity, and the ways people inhabit rapidly changing environments. His images move between documentary photography and a more interpretive visual language, seeking not only to describe places but to reveal the human relationships that give them meaning. 
 
His work has received international recognition in photography competitions and has been presented through photographic series.

Eduardo López Moreno

"I photograph places through the people who inhabit them. My interest is rarely in creating a comprehensive portrait of a country or culture. I am more interested in fragments: a gesture in a market, a woman waiting beside an old telephone, the rhythm of a loom, children occupying an improvised space, a procession passing through a familiar street. Small situations often reveal more about a place than monumental images do. Much of my work comes from walking. I observe how people appropriate streets, thresholds, markets, houses, religious spaces, transportation, walls, and the countless intermediate places where public and private life overlap." 
 
"Guatemala. An Indigenous woman stands beside a public telephone against a yellow wall. Tradition, urban infrastructure, and silence meet in a single frame, turning an ordinary street corner into a portrait of presence, waiting, and changing forms of connection."

"Waiting for a Call."

This photographic series explores the complexities of identity, culture, and femininity through an examination of how individuals understand, construct, and confront their sense of self. The work considers femininity not as a fixed or universal identity, but as something shaped by cultural expectations, personal experiences, relationships, and societal perceptions. Through portraiture and intentional visual composition, the series creates a space for both introspection and confrontation. 
 
The images explore the tension between the identities we inherit and the identities we choose to create. Cultural traditions, social expectations, and external perceptions can influence how femininity is expressed and understood, often creating conflicting ideas of who one is expected to be versus who one truly feels themselves to be. By placing these ideas within intimate and sometimes vulnerable imagery, the photographs question the boundaries between self-expression and societal expectation.

"Between Exposure and Privacy."

Selina Smith

Selina Smith is a photographer of mixed-racial background whose work explores identity, femininity, body language, and the connections we share with those around us. Her photography is rooted in an appreciation for people and the often-unspoken stories they carry. Through portraiture and conceptual imagery, Smith uses gesture, positioning, and visual symbolism to explore what can be seen and what may remain hidden. 
 
Her work encourages viewers to leave with both answers and questions: answers to what is immediately presented, while also questioning what those images truly mean beneath the surface. Through her photography, Smith hopes to create moments of reflection, appreciation, and curiosity about ourselves and the people around us.

Throughout the series, femininity is presented as both powerful and complicated. The work embraces qualities traditionally associated with femininity while simultaneously challenging the limitations placed upon them. Elements of the body, gesture, clothing, expression, and environment become visual tools for examining vulnerability, strength, individuality, and belonging.

"Seen-Not Known."

Ultimately, this series is an exploration of becoming. It confronts the ways identity is influenced by culture and perception while emphasizing that identity is continually evolving. The photographs invite viewers to consider their own relationship with identity and femininity, and to recognize the complexity that exists between how we are seen, how we are expected to be, and who we ultimately choose to become.

"Hidden in Company."

Ikal Laki

Ikal Laki, the artistic name of Juan Vindel, is a visual artist and photographer born in Mexico and raised in Jinotepe, Nicaragua, with more than a decade of experience. His interest in photography began during a trip to Mexico and developed further through his studies at the Centro de Especialización Fotográfica in Toluca. Since then, he has built a career that includes participation in the group exhibition DUALISMO in Toluca, first place in the Mexico City Photography Club competition, and a workshop at the Museo Leopoldo Flores. His work has also crossed borders, with participation in a group exhibition at the Jinotepe Festival of Visual Arts and a presentation in Taipei in a show organized by the International Coffee Industry. 
 
He held his first solo exhibition, It's Only an Illusion, Monochromatic Visions, at the CCPAC. He later traveled to Japan to study language and culture, an experience that led to an exhibition at Maronie Gallery in Kyoto.

"I am a visual artist and photographer with more than a decade of experience. I develop an author-driven brand centered on photography, alternative processes, and graphic work, creating visual works and experiences with their own identity and part of my essence. My work moves from the black and white of the countryside toward minimalist abstractions of thoughts and states of mind. Monochrome, minimalism, and authorship are the three concepts that hold up everything I do: I don't photograph moments and objects; I build visual works and experiences with their own identity. Art, beyond being a form of expression, is praying with the soul, speaking a mantra, invoking the deepest feelings, conveying that complex gut feeling that fills every molecule of our energy; it is the most intimate feeling of the human being."

"Returning Home."

James Todd Kent

"The photographs enclosed were made during a trip to Ecuador in March of 2011. I don't consider myself a documentary or ethnographic photographer, and yet, encountering Ecuador for the first time at twenty-one, my attention shifted almost entirely toward the people who inhabited these corners of the world. I was especially moved by the indigenous Quechua communities living along the steep, high-altitude slopes of the Andes - particularly along the Quilotoa Loop. Due to cultural sensitivities - at least at the time, as I had learned - a camera was often perceived as an intrusion; its presence being unsettling."

"Out of respect, I very discreetly photographed only when subjects had turned away, allowing their backs and postures to portray a different kind of visual language and storyline. And thus, a motif emerged on these rolls of film that I came to cherish; one born from reverence for a culture I was outside of. Perhaps by extending these photographs beyond my archives and old Flickr page, I hope they serve as a small offering - a way of giving back a bit of the magic that these moments gave me."

"Quilotoa, Ecuador."

"Chugchilán, Ecuador."

Dan Perez is a multiple award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, traveler and overall nice guy. Raised in NYC, he currently resides in South Florida. Dan started his video production company in 2006 and, on the strength of several award-winning documentary films he directed, shot and edited, has attracted several of the top nonprofit organizations in South Florida as longtime clients. 
 
After purchasing his first DSLR in 2011 (the Panasonic Lumix GH2), he began to incorporate photography into his work, eventually falling in love with a Pentax K-1 he purchased in 2019. He has moved on to the Sony Alpha line of cameras since that time (repurchasing the Pentax K-1 and several legacy lenses in early 2025) and has enjoyed shooting street, travel, event and documentary-style photography over the years. 
 
Dan's photographs have been named official selections in several international photography exhibitions as well as featured in New York Magazine.

Dan Perez

"Cañari Woman."

Carlos Ruiz

Central & South America

Carlos Ruiz is a researcher, seeker, and amateur photographer. Drawn to the poetics of art, and especially to photography, he finds in cities, landscapes, and people the enduring forces of history and aesthetics. 
 
Based in Paraíba, northeastern Brazil, he is an Associate Professor at the State University of Paraíba. 
 
His photographic gaze lingers on the everyday, revealing subtle encounters between place, memory, and human life.

"Dancing, Inti Raymi, Cusco, Valle Sagrado."

Central and South America are regions of extraordinary diversity, where centuries of history have created distinct cultures and ways of life. Their character reflects the influence of heritage, adaptation, and the relationship between communities and their surroundings.

These regions offer a deeper understanding of how culture develops through time. Their traditions, identities, and perspectives reveal societies with remarkable complexity, creativity, and a strong connection to their past.