This panel will be moderated by guest curator Dalina A. Perdomo-Álvarez in conversation with curator/writer Elizabeth Ferrer and photographers Adeline Lulo, and William Camargo. Additional details forthcoming!
Panelists
Dalina A. Perdomo-Álvarez is a museum professional and freelance film programmer. She is an independent curator mostly interested in photography, film, and video art. Del West Side, PR. #TemporalMoCP #RomanceTropicalPR
Elizabeth Ferrer is Vice President of Contemporary Art at BRIC, a non-profit arts and media organization based in Brooklyn. She is also a curator major exhibitions of modern and contemporary art for numerous venues in the United States and Mexico, and has written and lectured extensively on topics related to her fields of interest. Exhibitions she has curated have appeared at such venues as BRIC House, the Americas Society, the UBS Art Gallery, and the Aperture Foundation Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, the Snite Museum, Notre Dame University, and MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico.
Adeline Lulo was born in Washington Heights, New York and raised in the Bronx. Her work is shaped around family, history and memory. During her childhood, she spent many summers exploring the Dominican Republic. Her upbringing between the D.R and the U.S. inspired her to photograph her family’s homeland. The Photo essay Si Dios Quiere, or God Willing, portrays the lives of families in the Dominican Republic, as well as Dominican immigrants living in the United States. She depicts the tight-knit communities and cultures found in both of these places, illustrating a sense of need, desire and hunger for life. She creates a perception of the places and spaces she's inhabited. Her accomplishments include earning a BFA from Parsons School of Design and being a recipient of the En Foco Photography Fellowship. She was selected for The New York Times Portfolio Review and was also the recipient of the William Randolph Hearst Scholarship.
William Camargo is an Arts Educator, Photo-Based Artist, and Arts Advocate born and raised in Anaheim, California. He is currently serving as Commissioner of Heritage and Culture in the city of Anaheim and holds an M.F.A at Claremont Graduate University. Camargo is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos. He attained his BFA at the California State University, Fullerton, and an AA from Fullerton College in photography.
William has held residencies at Project Art, the Chicago Artist Coalition, ACRE, and at LA Summer held at Otis School of Art and Design. He has also participated in the New York Times Portfolio Review, NALAC's (National Association of Latino Arts & Culture) Leadership (2018), and Advocacy (2020) Institutes. He is a current member of Diversify Photo an initiative started to diversify the photography industry. He was awarded the Friedman Grant and J. Sonneman Photography Prize from CGU and has given lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Gallery 400 (Chicago), University of San Diego, Cal State Long Beach, the Claremont Colleges, and USC Roski School of Art, Stanford (upcoming).
Event Recap
This intimate panel moderated by Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez and featuring Elizabeth Ferrer, Adeline Lulo, and William Camargo, dove into the unique perspective of Latinx photographers. The panelists brought their individual takes on the field, discussing themes of family, culture, and displacement, while urging the audience for greater financial and scholarly investment in Latinx photographers and communities.
For more, watch the recording below!
Thumbnail Image: William Camargo, Ya'll Forget Who Worked Here? (2020) Archival Inkjet Print, courtesy of the artist.