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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 Martín Weber, Eu, Pajé, quero que minha filha estude para deferder seus direitos (I, Pajé, want my daugher to study to defend her rights) Comunidade Karapoto, Alagoas, Brazil. A Map of Latin American Dreams series Gelatin silver print, 24x20"  Martín Weber, Que la necesidad no pertube nuestros sueños (That our needs to not disturb our dreams). La Habana, Cuba. A Map of Latin American Dreams series Gelatin silver print, 20x24”  Martín Weber, Tener amigos (To have friends). Matagalpa, Nicaragua. A Map of Latin American Dreams series Gelatin silver print, 20x24” |
Martín Weber Born: 1968, Argentina Resides: Brooklyn, NY Heritage: Argentinian Selected Exhibitions: the Project in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX the International Center for Photography, New York, NY Light Work's Robert Menshel Gallery, Syracuse, NY Photographer’s Gallery, London UK Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina La Habana Art Biennial, Cuba Istanbul Art Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey Mois de La Photo Maison de L’Amerique, Paris, France Communa de Milano, Milan, Italy Education: International Center for Photography, New York City, NY 1993 University of Buenos Aires, Buenes Aires, Argentina Awards: Silvery Eye Center for Photography Fellowship, 2008 No Strings Foundation Grant, 2005 Prince Claus Grant, 2004 Hasselblad Foundation Grant, 2001, 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, 1998 Publications: Nueva Luz, Volume 12#3 (En Foco, Bronx, NY 2008) Contact Sheet issue #125 (Light Work, Syracuse, NY) "My aim is to document the desires and hopes of the individuals that make up Latin America, where each country’s history has confronted the lives of the individuals that inhabit these territories - where ideologies and economic policies have positioned them as characters in physical and cultural battlefields. At a time when most media is transformed into entertainment and human desires are recycled for sale, I believe it is possible to empower the unempowered - to present individuals who speak and think in their own words, therefore resisting that vision of fatalism so often imposed upon Latin Americans. In A Map of Latin American Dreams, I invite people to write on a chalkboard their desires and aspirations, in this way including their own perspective through their dreams. By participating in their own portrayal, they reveal themselves in their own language, therefore retaining power over how they are represented." --Nueva Luz, Volume 12#3 (2008) |
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