Sony World Photography Awards 2022: a look at the exhibition in Buenos Aires

The Peruvian photojournalist Angela Ponce and the Mexicans Alejandra Aragón and Jesús Arvizú, winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2022 contest in its edition for Latin America, participate in an exhibition at the ArtexArte gallery in Buenos Aires, which on three exhibition floors houses works by more than 50 photographers from all over the world. the world.

Considered one of the most important and prestigious photography competitions in the world, the initiative to create an exclusive exhibition to host the best of contemporary Latin American photography arises in order to give greater scope and visibility to the works of South American visual artists outside their National scope.

In correspondence with the itinerant character of the event, the organizers point out that this exhibition will be repeated year after year in different countries of the region.

Third place winner of the Latin America Professional Award (LAPA), the Peruvian documentary photographer Angela Ponce It was recognized thanks to the series entitled “They will only be black mountains”, in which it addresses the impact of climate change and mining on the vulnerable populations of the Peruvian Andes.

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She tells us: “It especially affects the people who live in the Andean part, since they have to move due to the contamination of the water, which can no longer be used for irrigation or to raise animals. They no longer have an economic livelihood and Andean customs are lost.

Professional of great projection and collaborator for international media such as “The New York Times”, “The Washington Post”, Bloomberg and others, Ángela Ponce is representative of the current moment that the art of the lens is experiencing, especially with the visibility of the work of women photojournalists or photodocumentalists, especially in South America.

About this space usually associated with men, she comments: “Now there are more spaces for women, but it is difficult. First, because there is a lot of machismo, and because supposedly this is a job that is made for strong people.”

Mexico present

Alejandra Aragón and Jesús Arvizú, first and second place in LAPArespectively, shared with their work their perspective on issues associated with the culture and life of Mexico.

Aragón resorted to the opening sentence of the novel by Juan Rulfo, “Pedro Páramo”, to title his photographic series: “I came to La Pinta because they told me that my father lives here”. In it, the photographer brings together a set of images of her own and family archives that show her crossing the border between Mexico and the United States in search of her biological father.

For his part, Jesús Arvizú stood out for his series “For glory and pain”, with which he managed to record the scene in which wrestling takes place in Querétaro. In his work, the lens artist enhances the expressions of the fighters with the use of black and white.

KNOW MORE

• Until October 22, the photographs of the Sony World Photography Awards 2022 will be exhibited at the ArtexArte gallery in Buenos Aires. See the photos of the winners from Latin America at https://bit.ly/3SIjus2.
• Photographers wishing to enter the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards can submit their work for free at https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards. The registration deadline is January 13, 2023.