photo_talks: What Moves You?
Adriana Loureiro Fernández
Adriana Loureiro Fernández is a freelance photojournalist currently based in Caracas, Venezuela and is a frequent contributor at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Der Spiegel, among others. She’ll be discussing her personal project Paradise Lost, which documents the collapse of her home country, Venezuela, with particular focus on social violence and forgotten towns with no gasoline, no currency, no police station or fire department, without electricity, running water or phone lines. As a photojournalist, she says “I like to think that even when we’re working under incredible pressure and don’t have time to stay as much as we’d like, we can still work from a place of empathy and respect for the other.”
Marco Bello leads the conversation and Q&A after the presentation.
Adriana Loureiro Fernandez is a freelance photojournalist currently based in Caracas, Venezuela, focusing on social conflict and youth culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is a frequent contributor at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Der Spiegel, among others. She has a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University and is a 2018 alumna from the Eddie Adams Workshop, where she received the Nikon Award. She’s the first woman from Latin America to have received the Remi Ochlik Award at “Visa pour l’image” (2019). Her largest personal project, Paradise Lost, documents the collapse of her home country, Venezuela. Started in 2010 with particular focus of social violence, the work has broadened throughout the years to encapsulate a wider image of the country. Her work has been exhibited in Latin America, Europe, and the United States.
adrianaloureiro.com
Marco Antonio Bello is an award-winning Reuters photojournalist, based in Caracas (Venezuela) and Miami. He originally studied business and worked as an IT consultant, but the political and social changes in Venezuela after the death of President Chavez in 2013 inspired him to become a photojournalist, eventually working for Reuters in Venezuela. In 2016 he attended the ICP Masterclass “Visual Storytelling in the Digital Age” in Turin, Italy, and in 2017 he was accepted to the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York. Along with photojournalism, he also teaches photography workshops in some of the main photography schools in Venezuela.
He has received awards from Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (2018), 75th Picture of the Year International (POYI) Award of Excellence (2018), American Photography 34 Chosen Winner (2018); NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism (2018), PDN Photo Annual (2018), International Photography Awards (2017), Honorable Mention; Latin American Fotografia 6 Winner (2017), and National Award of Journalism (2015).
Marco teaches
documentary photography and photojournalism
for StrudelmediaLive.
