photo_talks: What Moves You?
Zahara Gómez Lucini
Photographer Zahara Gómez Lucini presents “Recipes for Memory: A Gastronomic, Photographic and Social Project.” The act of cooking is an intimate ritual, a social act. This visual anthropology is about the victims of enforced disappearance in Mexico, and the food and recipes that mothers cooked for those sons who have now disappeared. Zahara studied photography and sociology at the Sorbonne, Paris, and works as a freelance photographer for Le Monde, Vice, Accent, El Mundo, and others.
Anita Pouchard Serra leads the conversation and Q&A after the presentation.
Zahara Gómez Lucini studied photography and sociology at the Sorbonne, Paris, where she concentrated on theoretical field studies based on the representation of the disappeared in Argentina. She worked for several years in the cultural department at Magnum Photos in Paris on a variety of exhibition and publishing projects, and she’s now a freelance photographer for publications including Le Monde, Vice, Accent, El Mundo, Think Tank Media, and others. Her personal photography work focuses on visual anthropology, exploring stories of political violence, especially around the memory of victims of enforced disappearance, forensic work and clandestine graves in Latin America. Zahara is a member of Foto Feminas and co-founder of Fotógrafas en México. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, Buenos Aires, New York, Arles, Lithuania, New Zealand, and she currently divides her time between Mexico and Europe.
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Anita Pouchard Serra is a French-Argentine photographer based in Buenos Aires and working mostly in Latin America. Her work focuses on current societal problems involving identity, migration, empowerment, and territory, with a strong transdisciplinary approach. She considers each project a laboratory to explore her photographic practice, from drawings to performance. She is a Pulitzer Center grantee and National Geographic Emergency Fund recipient (2020); a “We, Women” grantee by Women Photograph and United Photo Industries (2019); an Open Society Foundation “Moving Walls” fellow (2018); and a multiple IWMF (International Women’s Media Foundation) grantee. Her work has been published in Time, The New York Times, Le Monde, Bloomberg, Amnesty International, Days Japan, Wired, and Geo magazine among others and has exhibited her work in Argentina, France, Uruguay, Spain, and the United States. She has taught photojournalism in Argentina, France, the United States and El Salvador.
Anita teaches documentary storytelling and more for StrudelmediaLive.
